Company timeline: 1900s
The first vacuum cleaner and people news
More information will be added to this list in due course. If you have any information and/or documents that you think should be added to the tables, please leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
| Date | Event | Significance | Source |
| 1901 | Francis James Platt (2nd son of James Platt decd.) appointed a director. | People news | D5926/1 (Centenary Book) |
| 1902 | The first vacuum cleaner, built to Henry Cecil Booth’s specification. | Product news | D5926/1 (Centenary Book) |
| 1903 | Francis James Platt (2nd son of James Platt decd.) resigns as director, to become MD of Dudbridge Iron Works. | People news | D5926/1 (Centenary Book) |
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The Citizen recently said that Walter grew up in Heathville Rd Gloucester & so in 1902 would have seen St Catherine’s Vicarage (corner Denmark/Heathville Rd) be 1st British house to be vacuumed by Fielding & Platt’s vacuum cleaner. If correct is there any chance of blue plaque on the Vicarage?
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