Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland: Clubmakers

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J Douglas & Sons
Dudley

J Douglas, Son and Co Ltd of Dudley in the English Midlands first appear on the record around 1920 in which year they advertised for representatives to sell their ‘range of boots and shoes, leggings, bags and suitcases etc.’ Later advertisements showed this range produced at the Trindle Wotks to incluse purses, wallets, fishing bags, golf bags and camera cases.

At some point they added golf woods to their repertoire with the King of Clubs brand, conventional persimmon-headed clubs with hickory shafts. They were sold by, amongst others, Thornton & Co, so one presumes a certain level of quality. They were offered by Thorntons in 1936, among their higher end steel-shafted clubs, at 25/6 reduced to 18/6 each. One or more sons was added to the business as it became J Douglas, Sons and Co.

In 1932, as the advertisement shows, they advertised ‘the future of golf’, Rexolite, a plastic alternative to wood heads formed directly onto a steel shaft, i.e. without a hosel promising greater distance and better control. It wasn’t the future but the company obviously survived the experiment as they were exhibiting at the Leather Industries Fair in the Kensington Palace Hotel in Londin in 1955 with ‘notable examples of sports and travel goods’.

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