1897 - 1902
Mariendalsvej 47, Copenhagen
The most modern match factory at the time of the century was "Københavns
Tændstikfabrik" , which was completed in 1898 and owned by J.M.
Carlsen and A. V.
Schibbye .
The plant was done under the direction of matchstick technician
Kruckenberg , which had been employed from "Tændstikfabrikken
Merkur" in Randers.
As the director was also employed Edvard Hans Jorgensen.
The factory led from the start a very aggressive salesmanship
and marketed among others
its products by a label with a portrait of champion wrestler
Bech-Olsen.
Another product was the electric match, which was not however
electric , but just used the name of one that time's latest
technologies.
Perhaps an allusion to the fact that the factory was one of the
first with electric lighting.
The electric match , however, had a distinguishing feature , the
sticks were tapered so that the head was not thicker than the
rest of the sticks , which could be as much as 80 sticks in the
box.
Since there was an the overproduction of matches in
Denmark in 1900 HE
Gosch
cooperated with their bankers , Private Bank President
Axel Heide to acquire the remaining factories in Denmark and
Heide started initially negotiations for a merger of all the
other factories .
In 1901 this was clear and the company " limited company
Københavns Tændstikfabrikker og Aktietændstikfabrikken Merkur"
was formed consisting of P. Rohmell , Godthaabsvejs
Tændstikfabrik , Københavns Tændstikfabrik og Merkur.
Københavns Tændstikfabrik continued to produce until late in
1902 , after which some of the machines were transferred to
Randers while the machine for the electric matches were
transferred to Godthaab on Amager , along with the workers who
were associated with this production.
Schibbye had to undertake not to have anything to do with
matches for the next 5 years.
Fabrikken på Mariendalsvej efter at
Københavns Tændstikfabrik var ophørt og Ellehammer havde
etableret motorcykelfabrik
