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| 1871 |
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Rebecca Fowler, aged eight starts working part-time for sixpence a week in a glove factory in Great Torrington in Devon |
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| 1873 |
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William Pinkham, at the age of twelve starts an apprenticeship in a glove factory in the same town |
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| 1884 |
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William & Rebecca are married |
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| 1886 |
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Lilian Pinkham born |
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| 1890 |
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Leslie Pinkham born |
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| 1899 |
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William & Rebecca start making gloves in the kitchen of their house in Great Torrington |
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| 1901 |
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William & Rebecca move to Salisbury and continue making gloves in their home |
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| 1901 |
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William becomes Liberal Party agent for Maldon near Witham in Essex |
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| 1904 |
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William & Rebecca move to 11, Albert Road Witham & continue making gloves in their home |
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| 1904 |
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William & Rebecca form The National Glove Company (The N G C) employing ten girls |
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| 1905 |
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William & Rebecca expand the business & start a 'miniature manufactory' at 13 & 14 Albert Road Witham |
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| 1905 |
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Engecie (N G C) becomes the trade mark of The National Glove Company |
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| 1908 |
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William & Rebecca's daughter Lilian joins the business |
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| 1911 |
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William & Rebecca's son Leslie joins the business |
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| 1912 |
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New factory built in Witham |
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| 1913 |
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Leslie goes to Germany to look at their manuafacturing methods |
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| 1916 |
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Leslie forms The National Association of British Fabric Glove Makers |
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| 1917 |
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Factories opened in Great Torrington & Barnstaple to support the war effort |
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| 1918 |
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New factory opened in Chelmsford managed by Lilian |
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| 1920 |
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Lilian marries Wilson Dawson, leaves the company and moves to Glasgow |
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| 1920 |
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84 firms in England are employing 12,000 people making gloves |
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| 1920 |
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Exports to the US, Australia & New Zealand begin |
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| 1921 |
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Exports to Japan reach £8,000 a year |
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| 1921 |
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New factory built at Chelmsford |
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| 1922 |
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New factory at Matlock Bath opens |
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| 1923 |
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An office in Gresham Street London is opened |
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| 1923 |
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Leslie succeeded in in producing a high grade warp fabric with the appearance of suede |
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| 1924 |
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An average of 200,000 buttons a week are sewn onto gloves across the company |
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| 1925 |
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152 employees working for the company |
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| 1927 |
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8 firms remain in England employing less than 1,000 people making gloves |
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| 1931 |
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The company goes bankrupt, 500 job losses and the group of factories & machinery are broken up and sold |
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| 1932 |
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Lilian's husband Wilson Dawson lends William & Leslie enough money to buy back the Witham factory |
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| 1932 |
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The business becomes a limited company |
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| 1933 |
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The Witham factory re-opens and is soon producing gloves at full capacity again |
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| 1933 |
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New factory at Dagenham opens |
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| 1938 |
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William dies whilst at work at the Witham factory |
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| 1939 |
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Gloves for the UK and US forces including mosquito-proof gloves for the Africa corps |
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| 1948 |
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Second factory built at Witham and glove production starts at Southmoor Co. Durham |
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| 1948 |
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The company now has 600 employees producing 48,000 pairs of gloves a week |
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| 1955 |
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Two new collections of styles are now produced each year with designers in Paris, New York & Vienna |
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| 1959 |
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South Moor factory re-located to a new factory at Stanley Co. Durham |
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| 1959 |
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The company diversifies into making blouses |
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| 1966 |
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The company closes |
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