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THE DUCKHAMS STORY

ALEXANDER DUCKHAMS

Alexander Duckham, was an English chemist and businessman who in 1899 founded Alexander Duckham & Co, in Millwall, England.

Relocating from Millwall to Hammersmith in 1921, he dedicated a lifetime to solving technological problems relating to lubrication and produced the first multigrade oil for motorists; which by 1967 Duckhams was regarded the largest independent lubrication oil company in the UK.

Alexander Duckham was famously an early aviation pioneer and close friend of cross-channel aviator Louis Blériot. Duckham accompanied the French aviator in 1909 in the first powered cross-channel flight and the following year broke the British altitude record, reaching a height of 1,600 feet.