AEI: Cables
Note: This is a subsection of AEI
1959 AEI created several cross-company product divisions, one of which was SES Cable Division[1]
1959 AEI acquired a group of 4 companies: London Electric Wire Co and Smiths, Frederick Smith and Co, Liverpool Electric Cable Co, Vactite Wire Co.
1960 AEI reorganised its 3 main operating companies into products divisions[2], one of which specialized in cables but this suffered from stiff competition right from the start. The number of production sites was reduced from 6 to 4, namely Woolwich, Gravesend, Birtley and Lydbrook.
1965 Established the Cables Group; the subsidiary companies were being rationalized; the group headquarters were in Gravesend[3]
1966 The separate LEW group benefitted from modernized factories, reporting a record profit this year[4]
1968 After AEI was acquired by GEC, the Wire and Cable businesses of AEI were brought together under a unified management (presumably GEC (Cables and Equipment)); the business could offer all types of wire from fine wire for electronics to heavy duty cable[5]
1970 Submarine Cables Ltd, part of GEC Telecommunications, was sold to Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd.