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It was founded in 1860, formed into a private company (Carter, Paterson & Co., Ltd.) in 1887, and converted into a public company in February 1934. In October 1933, the Big Four railway companies purchased control of the company in equal shares. Its head office was at 128 Goswell Road, London EC1.[1]
The lovelorn batman to Clive Brook’s Major Daviot, Tandy, played by Gus McNaughton, compares their peripatetic lifestyle unfavourably to a career in Carter Paterson, in the 1937 film, Action for Slander.
In Hugh Lofing’s “Dr. Doolittle’s Post Office,” Mudface the turtle (a witness to Noah’s Ark) is asked to bring the doctor a souvenir of the drowned city of Shalba in the depths of Lake Junganyika. He returns with a huge carved stone window ledge. Cheapface the sparrow exclaims “ Great Carter Patterson!”
In the Dad's Army episode "Sons of the Sea" Captain Mainwaring asks Pike to ask Carter Paterson to move his cart as it is in the way of his Bren gun target. In the episode "The Captain's Car", Pike places a bucket full of manure on Captain Mainwaring's desk because "Carter Paterson's horse has just gone down the road".
Hays Wharf Cartage Company (1947) Transport Saga, 1646 - 1947. London: Hays Wharf Cartage Company (a history of Pickford's Ltd and Carter Paterson & Co.)