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NORDEN AND GODTHAABSVEJS TÆNDSTIKFABRIK
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1890 - 1906
Godthaabsvej 39, København


Glover Master Lars Larsen moved in the late 1870s from Odense to Copenhagen, where he settled as a merchant and in doing so he met Mr. Christian Sørensen Møller . After several years of having imported matches from the Swedish Nybro Match Factory , which had put Lars Larsen's own labels on the boxes, he decided in 1890 to start his own match factory . The same year he applied for permission to start test production of matches in one half of a building on Godhaabsvej 10d associated gardener Høyer, and which had hitherto been used for tanning .

After Christian Møller had sought the fire inspector to get permission and this was given , although the fire inspector took occasion to rebuke Larsen for his poor equipment proposal in the cramped space. Lars Larsen followed the fire inspector's advice and production, which was estimated at 20,000 boxes a day began.

Already 2 years after , in 1892  Lars Larsen for unknown reasons choosed to sell the factory to grocer Julius Ferdinand Wiberg , which also renamed the factory to " Godthaabsvejs Tændstikfabrik by JF Wiberg " . Wiberg had not the wherewithal to run the factory and since the winter of 1892-1893 closed the port of Riga and thus the supply of wood ,  Wiberg had to stop production.

Wiberg came into contact with Gustav Jorgensen and Oscar West, who wanted to buy the factory , on the condition that the authorities accepted that they could use the permissions that Wiberg  already had received . In April 1893 Jorgensen and West was registred as owners of the factory which they renamed " Godthaabsvejs Tændstikfabrik " . They immediately began to expand the factory to the remainder of the building and made the following years a number of renovations and expansions of the production.

After a fire in 1895, when the entire top floor of the warehouse was razed , the engines on the ground floor was saved and the production could be resumed after a period in which the 14 employees had been sent home. In 1897  Jorgensen and West built a small storage shed and in this regard, the fire commission , that it is not desirable that the " small and poor landscaped factory" was " aimlessly extended" as there were plans to construct a 30 meter wide road down to Nyelandsvej. ( probably the extension of Fasanvej ) .

During 1900, Private Bank President r Axel Heide worked to gather the Danish matchstick factories and in 1901 he managed to merge the Copenhagen factories , P. Rohmell , Godthaabsvejs Tændstikfabrik and Københyavns Tændstikfabrik with "Atkietændstikfabrikken Merkur" into the limited liability company "Københavns Tændstikfabrikker og Aktietændstikfabrikken Merkur " . H. E. Gosch & Co. were not officially in this group , but had a pre-arranged definitely aggreement with the new company. Oscar West was hired as president of the company . In this act Godthaabsvejens Tændstikfabrik had bought P. Rohmells machinery and equipment for 10,000 kroner and transferred it to their factory .

In February 1903  H. E. Gosch & Co. closed Godthaabsvejens Tændstikfabrik and Oscar West retired as president. H. E. Gosch & Co. used , however, until 1906 the name " Godthaabsvejens Tændstikfabrik " on some of their labels.



De to meget ens etiketter fra Nybro Tändstickfabrik og fra Lars Larsen.
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1838 - Benjamin Hellmann
1840 - Rohmell´s fabrikker
1841 - Ramsing & Stonor
1842 - Hans Andreas Reuter
1842 - Anne Marie Granberg
1843 - Hans Diderich Schmilau
1843 - Frederik Georg Kølbel
1843 - Carl Axel Hörner
1843 - Carl Peter Rolff
1843 - Christian Peter Beck
1843 - Christophersen og Nielsen
1843 - Johan Carl Müller
1844 - Svovlstikkefabrikken Møllegade
1844 - Arnold Theofilus Müllertz
1844 - Carl Ferdinand Gundorph

1844 - Hassing og Smith
1844 - Carl Frederik Kryger
1844 - Peter Conradsen
1844 - Philip Åkermann
1845 - Niels Thuesen
1846 - Niels Sørensen
1847 - Rasmus Rasmussen
1847 - Søren og Jørgen Brummer
1848 - Frederik Hansen
1850 - Greens fabrikker
1850 - Carl Johan Staal
1850 - Peder Andersen
1853 - Gümoes & Beeken
1853 - Johan Wilhelm Otto
1857 - Carl Abraham Metz
1858 - Anders Sørensen & Co.
1862 - Sørens Larsen Sørensen

1864 - Randers Tændstikfabrik
1864 - Rasmus Langeland Mathiesen
1864 - Hintz & Co
1864 - Ludvig Hintze
1865 - Aalborg Svovlstikkefabrik
1865 - Peter Nielsen
1865 - Hans Jørgensen Svovlstikkefabrik
1865 - Adolph Madsen
1865 - Andreas Bernhard Bryndum
1866 - Carl Meyling
1866 - Lund & Hartmann
1867 - Johan Wilhelm Krause
1868 - Peter Christian Petersen

1868 - Kjær & Gottlieb
1872 - Pallesen & Davidsen
1875 - Kronen og Nørrebros tændstikfabrik
1876 - H.E. Gosch & Co
1884 - Tændstikfabrikken Merkur
1886 - Maare Tændstikfabrik
1890 - Norden og Godthaabsvej

1897 - Københavns Tændstikfabrik
1899 - Internationalt Tændstikkompagni

1901 - Tændstikfabrikken Glødefri
1901 - Købmændenes Tændstikfabrik
1901 - Københavns Tændstikfabrik & Merkur
1904 - Hellerup Tændstikfabrik

1907 - Otto Miram
1908 - KET & Union Allumettière
1916 - Frantz Nehammer
1921 - Hellerup & Glødefri
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