Drygleam paint - advert issued by Drynamels Ltd, Hall Green, Birmingham - 1948

            There will be at least one other person than me who knows the name "Drynamels" - and yes, that's you Geoff.

A 1948 advert, from Architectural Review, issued by the Birmingham based paint and finsihes manufacturer Drynamels Ltd and I know the name as family frriends worked at the Shaftmoor Lane factory and several of our family homes over the years were painted with their paints! The company, as noted here, was part of the TI Group, Tube Investments, the Birmingham based integrated industrial concern whose roots were in steel tubes and who went on to create an organisation comprising associated trades who used or required tubes and associated services. So Drynamels I suspect were formed or acquired to provide paint and finishes for tube products within the TI Group, such as PEL Furniture, or the various bike companies for examples.

I can find little about Drynamels apart from the fact the company still survives as Ferro-Drynamels, now based in Staffordshire, and who appear to be powder coating specialists and that is where I think the company was heading when TI was broken up. According to Companies House, Drynamels was formed on 17 July 1930, only formally becoming TI Drynamels in 1978. By 1981 they were just Drynamels again and in 1985 they appear to have been bought by paint manufacturers Macphersons who, as Macpherson Drynamels based in Walsall, sold them on to Ferro (UK)  in 1987 when they became Ferro Drynamels.

They were certainly producing paint in 1941 as they received one of the last Paxman paint mills built by Paxman before they divested that division and in 1951 they're noted as manufacturers of finishing paints for short wave radio sets! Anyhow, there you are - a market advert for them and their "Drygleam" paints.

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