Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,964 pages of information and 246,440 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

AEI-Birlec

From Graces Guide
1960.
1960.
1962.
May 1962.
July 1962.
September 1962.
1964. Wood Lane research and development laboratory.
1964. Machining of the guide vane bush holes.
1964. Guide vane assembly.
1964. Birlec-Granco gas-fired rapid-heating furnace.

of Tyburn Road, Erdington, Birmingham.

of Aldridge, Staffs.

formerly Birlec.

1954 September. Birlec bought by AEI.[1]

1956 Commenced building a new factory at Aldridge, Staffs.[2]

1958 Agreement with Efco to form a joint venture Birlec-Efco (Melting) to design and manufacture electric furnaces for the ferrous and non-ferrous industries, and smelting furnaces and induction heating equipment[3]

1968 After the take-over of AEI by GEC all of Birlec's activities were concentrated at Aldridge[4]

1968 Electroslag refining plant supplied to Samuel Osborn and Co [5]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, 25th September 1954
  2. The Times, 2 October 1956
  3. The Times, Sep 24, 1958
  4. The Times , July 30, 1968
  5. The Engineer 1968/01/05 p16