Mitchells & Butlers Ltd (Part of Bass Mitchells & Butlers Ltd) Small Round Tin

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BT1936
Mitchells & Butlers Ltd tin tray dating from the 1960s. The Cape Hill Brewery was based in Smethwick, West Midlands.
Mitchells & Butlers Ltd tin tray dating from the 1960s. Henry Mitchell started brewing before 1851 in West Bromwich. He acquired the Crown Inn and the Crown Brewery on Oldbury Road, Smethwick, in 1854. After his retirement in 1866 his son, also named Henry Mitchell, rebuilt the Oldbury Road Crown Brewery. This was then replaced when Henry built the Cape Hill Brewery in 1878. The Company was registered as Henry Mitchell & Co. Ltd in 1888. Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd was built in the 1880s by William Butler at the rear of the Crown public house on Broad Street, Birmingham. The business was registered in 1895 as Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd. Henry Mitchell & Co. Ltd merged with Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd in 1898 to form Mitchell & Butlers Ltd and all brewing was moved to the seven acre site at Cape Hill. The estate of the newly merged business totalled over 200 public houses, mostly based in the Birmingham area. Mitchells & Butlers Ltd quickly expanded when it acquired Alfred Homer Ltd's Vulcan Brewery of Aston with 39 pubs, in 1899. After the turn of the 20th century the Company continued to acquire local breweries. Cheshire's Brewery Ltd Windmill Brewery of Smethwick, and George Jones Kingston Brewery of Bordesley were both purchased in 1913 and significantly, a major rival, Holder's Brewery Ltd of Birmingham, was acquired with over 200 public houses in 1919. A brewery that was purchased by the Company but remained open under its control was the Highgate & Walsall Brewery Co. Ltd which was acquired in 1939 with 30 tied houses. During and after World War II, Mitchells & Butlers Ltd acquired a further eight breweries. After the takeover of five small breweries in the 1940s, Joseph Henry Davies of Netherton in 1942, A.H.Clarke of Wellington and Thompson's Brewery Ltd of Studley in 1945, James Pritchard & Son Darlaston Brewery in 1946, and Thatcher's Brewery Ltd in 1949, the Company acquired three more significant rivals. Darby's Brewery Ltd Dunkirk Brewery of West Bromwich with over 100 public houses was purchased in 1951, although it remained open until 1968, followed by Atkinsons Brewery Ltd with 200 pubs in 1959, and finally, the largest of them all, William Butler & Co. Ltd of Wolverhampton with 830 public houses, in 1960. Brewing continued at William Butler & Co. Ltd's Springfield Brewery until 1991. With its sizeable, mainly West Midlands based estate, totalling over 4000 public houses, Mitchells & Butlers Ltd became a 'perfect fit' for a merger with Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd of Burton-on-Trent. Bass required more pubs with which to supply its beers, resulting in the formation of a new Company, Bass, Mitchells & Butlers Ltd, in 1961. A futher merger with Charrington United Breweries Ltd created Bass Charrington Ltd in 1967, later renamed Bass PLC. Whilst under the ownership of Coors, which had purchased the Company from Interbrew in 2001, the Cape Hill Brewery in Smethwick was closed in 2002. Boasting the country's largest portfolio of managed pubs, a new, completely restructured Mitchells & Butlers PLC, was launched on the London Stock Exchange in 2003. Sadly brewing is not part of the Company's future. The manufacturer's mark states - Printed in Great Britain by Reginald Corfield Ltd.
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Brewery Origin England
County West Midlands
Reverse Finish Standard
Tray Manufacturer Reginald Corfield Ltd (Redhill)
Tray Material Tin
Year Of Manufacture 1966
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