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 167,028 pages of information and 246,693 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.

Rootes Securities

From Graces Guide

1933 The name of the holding company for companies owned by Rootes Ltd was changed to Rootes Securities Ltd [1]; Humber Ltd became the manufacturing division and Rootes Ltd controlled distribution, property, and hire-purchase financing subsidiaries.

By 1936 the Rootes group of companies included[2]:

by 1941 the Rootes Group was advertised as the name of the overall Group[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Monday, Nov 21, 1949
  2. The Times, Oct 24, 1936
  3. The Times, Feb 05, 1941