The Rivalry of the 1760s
A period of intense rivalry followed between the Usk works and the re-established factory in Pontypool. A series of advertisements were placed in the Gloucester Journal in the summer of 1763, which are an interesting source of information about the two companies. The advertisements reveal that the Usk business had at least three selling agents in the fashionable shopping district of London, thus testifying to the popularity of the goods. They also make it clear that the greater part of the assets and customers of the original firm transferred to Usk in the dispute.
View an advertisment from the Gloucester Journal. Monday, July 4th 1763, and a reply by the Usk manufactory in the Gloucester Journal. Monday, August 8th 1763