WILLIAM FRANCE & CO. LTD.
image by Ivan Sache, None
Before 1895 William France used a blue flag with white WF.
The 1895 replacement has a blue field and white cross, surmounted by a blue circle outlined in black and bearing white WF, according to Loughran.
Griffin 1895 instead shows a white circle outlined in blue, with red WF.
William France’s origins extend at least to 1765 in the East Coast coal trade.
UK: originally Leeds, then Goole and London.