Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd (Alloa Brewery) Round Black Backed Steel

Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd black backed steel tray dating from the 1930s.

The Alloa Brewery Company

The Alloa Brewery Company, with its Alloa Brewery, was established in 1810.
By 1825 Andrew Roy had purchased the Alloa Brewery and was trading under the name of Andrew Roy & Co.
When Andrew Roy died in 1855 the business was run by trustees until 1860, eventually passing into the hands of Archibald T Arrol in 1866.
After Archibald Arrol's death in 1888, the business was run by his two sons Walter and Archibald.

Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd Registration

The Company was registered as Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd in 1895 to amalgamate the business of Walter & Archibald Arrol, with the businesses of J.Meikle and William Turnbull, both based in Newcastle-on-Tyne.
When John Joseph Calder, a director of Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd, was appointed by receivers acting for Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd in 1912, a link with lager brewing in Burton-on-Trent was formed.
In 1899, Allsopp's had converted an existing brewery on High Street in Burton-on-Trent, into a lager brewery.
Lager sales were well below expectations, when in 1916, a fire destroyed part of the brewery.
Allsopp's Lager had gained a terrible reputation both by drinkers and shareholders alike.

Allsopp's Lager Brewing at the Alloa Brewery

John Calder decided not to repair the brewery but to use his connections to negotiate an agreement to brew Allsopp's Lager at Archibald Arroll & Sons Ltd Alloa Brewery in 1921.
At first Allsopp's Lager was renamed Arrol's Lager and Calder's Lager although Allsopp's Bottled Lager continued to be used for the export market where its reputation was better. Indeed the Red Hand trade mark continued to be used by a separately created subsidiary export company named The Alloa Bottling Co. Ltd until the 1950s.
In 1927 the lager was renamed Graham's Golden Lager.
Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd brewed for Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd until 1930 when Allsopp's gained a controlling interest in the Company.

Ind Coope & Allsopp Ltd & Skol Lager

Samuel Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd merged with Ind Coope & Co. Ltd becoming Ind Coope & Allsopp Ltd in 1934.
In 1951 the business entered voluntary liquidation and the Company, with its brewery and 29 public houses, was acquired by Ind Coope & Allsopp Ltd.
The Alloa Brewery brewed Graham's Golden Lager until it was rebranded Skol Pilsner Lager in 1959 and later simply Skol.
By the mid 1960s Skol was the best selling British brewed lager.
The Scottish Company traded as Ind Coope Alloa Brewery Ltd later renamed the Alloa Brewery Co. Ltd.
After several further mergers, the Alloa Brewery was closed by its last owners Carlsberg-Tetley plc in 1998, and the site was demolished in 2001.

The manufacturer's mark states - Reginald Corfield Ltd Lombard Road. London. S.W.19.
The tray featured is exactly the same design as one manufactured by Hancock Corfield & Waller Ltd a few years earlier.
It is slightly smaller in size.