Company type | Company limited by guarantee |
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Industry | Manufacturing |
Founded | 1916 in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England |
Founder | Pendrill Charles Varrier-Jones (1883–1941) |
Fate | Luggage and travel-goods division bought by Swaine Adeney Brigg in 1997 |
Successor | Papworth Trust; Swaine Adeney Brigg (luggage and travel goods division) |
Headquarters | Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom |
Products | cabinetry, luggage, travel goods, books, coachwork, electronics[1] |
Papworth Industries was the name given to the manufacturing arm of Papworth Village Settlement, a Cambridgeshire colony for sufferers of tuberculosis founded in 1916. The luggage and travel-goods division was bought by the London firm of Swaine Adeney Brigg in 1997.