Arcon Group
A group of companies who collaborated on the design, manufacture and sale of Arcon prefabricated buildings. The Arcon system of building had been developed by Taylor Woodrow during WWII.
1946 The 1,000th Arcon temporary prefabricated house to leave the distribution centre at Charlesfield, St Boswells, Roxburghshire, was delivered last Friday to the Bankend site at Jedburgh. Delivered by Taylor Woodrow Construction. The Arcon house is a joint production by ICI, Stewarts and Lloyds, Turner's Asbestos, Williams and Williams and is a one-story steel framed house with an inner and outer skin of asbestos cement sheeting. Programme of 10,000 for Scotland and 41,000 for England.[1]
1956 Existing members of the Group included[2]:
and were joined by Crittall Manufacturing Co, makers of metal windows and doors.