Medicine container and contents, 'Beechams Pills', wood / paper / medication, Australia, 1930-1940

Beechams was the family business of Thomas Beecham (1820-1907), a chemist. 
1842 Company was founded as Thomas Beecham. The first product was Beecham's Pills, a laxative. Beecham sold Beecham's Pills, and other medicines at markets around Wigan.
1859 Beecham opened its first factory in St Helens, Lancashire, for the rapid production of medicines. The factory was the first to be opened solely for the production of medicines.
1875 Beecham was exporting his remedies to Africa and Australia.
1887 Another branch of the business was founded in USA
1907 Thomas Beecham died, and his sons Joseph and William took over the running of the business.
1913 Production of Beecham's Pills laxative reached one million a day.
Under Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848-1916) the business expanded but the company remained focussed on patent medicines and engaged little in research.
1924 Public company formed Beecham Estates and Pills Ltd which acquired Covent Garden Markets, owners of various properties in London, and the Beecham's Pills business
1926 Beecham's Powders were launched.
Sometime after 1926 the family connection to the company ended after the company was sold.
1927 The company decided to dispose of its pills business
1928 A new public company was formed: Beecham's Pills Ltd, to acquire the pills business and great majority of shares in the Veno Drug Co, maker of Veno's cough medicine and "Germolene" antiseptic.
1938 Beecham bought companies for various products, adding the Lucozade glucose drink, Enos Fruit Salts, and Macleans toothpaste to its product chain.
1939 It added hair products for men to its product chain by buying County Perfumery Co Ltd, manufacturers of Brylcreem
1944 The company was named Beecham Group Ltd.
1945 Beecham Research Laboratories Ltd operated from Brockham Park, Surrey.
1955 Acquired H. W. Carter and Co, manufacturers of Ribena blackcurrant drink.
1958 Acquired Thomas and Evans, makers of Corona Soft Drinks
1969 Acquired Horlicks Malted Milk Co
1971 Beecham attempted to take-over Glaxo
1972 Beecham launched Amoxil, which went on to become one of the most widely prescribed antibiotics.
1981 Beecham introduced Augmentin, an antibiotic used to treat an array of bacterial infections.
1989 The Beecham Group plc and SmithKline Beckman merged to form SmithKline Beecham plc.
1989 Production of "Beecham's Pills" ceased.
2001 SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome merged to form GlaxoSmithKline.
Sourced at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Beecham_Group, accessed 22/01/2021

Beechams

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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89/74 Medicine container and contents, 'Beechams Pills', wood / paper / medication, Beechams, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1930-1940

Containers used to hold liquid medications, sometimes together with other medical equipment.

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Container of 'Beecham's Pills'

Object No. 89/74

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