Ross and Co, another tanning company dating to the 18th century, possessed rights to manufacture ministerial boxes for the government, the famous Dispatch Boxes with which Barrow Hepburn and Gale would come to be associated. Then in 1920 Hepburn, Gale and Ross merged again with Samuel Barrow and Brother, by this time becoming a very successful company, making a broader range of leather goods and expanding its operations to encompass glue, gelatine and rubber production. A number of other mergers followed, such as to Blackman's Leather Goods Company, which supplied baby harnesses to HRH the Duchess of Kent and to HRH Princess Juliana of the Netherlands,[2] resulted in an ever growing company.