Papworth Industries

Papworth Industries
Company type	Company limited by guarantee
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

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.

^ According to C. C. Brown and J. C. Starke, there was an electronics production facility at Papworth Industries employing some 70 staff. See Advances in Manufacturing Technology: Proceedings of the First National Conference on Production Research (ed. P. F. McGoldrick) (Springer, 1986), p. 237.

[1] According to C. C. Brown and J. C. Starke, there was an electronics production facility at Papworth Industries employing some 70 staff. See Advances in Manufacturing Technology: Proceedings of the First National Conference on Production Research (ed. P. F. McGoldrick) (Springer, 1986), p. 237.

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