What is Armitage Shanks?
[[Image:Armitage Shanks 1.jpg|thumb|220px|An Armitage Shanks [[urinal]]]] '''Armitage Shanks''' is a [[porcelain]] sanitary-ware company that started in 1969.<ref name=as>{{Cite web |url=http://www.armitage-shanks.co.uk/about.html |title=About us - Armitage Shanks |work=armitage-shanks.co.uk |access-date=15 July 2010 |archive-date=20 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420055000/http://www.armitage-shanks.co.uk/about.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its headquarters are in [[Stoke-on-Trent]], [[United Kingdom]]. Its main product is [[toilet]]s, but it also makes [[bathroom]] fixtures and [[plumbing]] supplies. They have eight factories. A [[punk rock]] music band from the 1990s is named after them.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://damagedgoods.co.uk/band/?c=Armitage-Shanks |title=Damaged Goods Records: Armitage Shanks |work=damagedgoods.co.uk |access-date=15 July 2010 }}</ref> Armitage Shanks is made up of two older companies. Armitage started in 1817, when Thomas Bond started a pottery at [[Armitage]], in [[Staffordshire]].<ref name=as/> They began making toilets in the 1850s. The second company was Shanks which started making toilets at [[Barrhead]] near [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]] in 1878.<ref name=as/> The two companies joined together in 1969. ==References== {{reflist}} {{UK-stub}} [[Category:1817 establishments in Europe]] [[Category:Ceramics]] [[Category:1810s establishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Organisations based in Stoke-on-Trent]] [[Category:Companies based in Staffordshire]]