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British Industrial History
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Allen Gwynnes Pumps
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of Bedford
1960 W. H. Allen, Sons and Co acquired William Foster and Co, including its wholly owned subsidiary Gwynnes Pumps Ltd[1].
1963 Gwynnes Pumps at Lincoln was renamed Allen Gwynne Pumps, with staff transferred to Lincoln from Bedford and Hammersmith, and the old premises sold. [2].
1968 Part of Amalgamated Power Engineering (APE)
1969 APE acquired the industrial pumps business of Vickers based in Barrow in Furness; this took place through APE's Allen Gwynnes Pumps subsidiary[3].