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 166,994 pages of information and 246,689 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.

Western Manufacturing

From Graces Guide
January 1952.
1953.
1953.
Sept 1956.

Western Manufacturing (Reading) Ltd. of The Aerodrome, Woodley, Reading.

1929 Company founded.

1935 Public company.

1955 Western Manufacturing negotiated a deal with Standard-Thomson Corporation of USA to take a 60 percent interest in a new company, Western Thomson Controls, to manufacture the high pressure wax pellet thermostats of Standard-Thomson[1]

1955 Merger with Adamant Engineering Co of Luton to form Adamant and Western Engineering[2].

1961 Light precision engineers, engaged in manufacture of aircraft accessories, printing machinery and other equipment. 1,000 employees. [3]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Mar. 9, 1955
  2. The Times 12 February 1955
  3. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE