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 167,390 pages of information and 246,874 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.

A. E. Griffiths (Smethwick)

From Graces Guide
1950.
1969.
1969.

of Smethwick, Birmingham

1934 A. E. Griffiths became private company

1954 Became public company A. E. Griffiths (Smethwick)

Gas Fired Air Circulated Convection Oven for Stove Enamelling, low temperature heat treatment, etc. A Gas Fired Radiant Heat (Infra Red) Drying Oven with Flame Failure and Thermostatic Controls.

1961 Manufacturers of industrial ovens and tanks, sheet metal products, industrial extraction equipment, heating and ventilating plant, P. V. C. and glass fibre installations, material handling equipment and pickling and metal cleaning plant. 200 employees. [1]

c.1973 Renamed Lyndale Engineering Ltd; acquired Waddington Tools Ltd, Nilow Gauge and Tool Ltd, Ready Brothers (Metals) Ltd and Ready Brothers (Properties) Ltd[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Times Oct. 5, 1973