Beans Engineering
Successor to Beans Industries
At some point the company was renamed Beans Engineering.
1972 British Leyland transferred its marine engine work to Beans, which had 1000 employees at Tipton sites[1].
1988 Management buyout from Rover with investment from 3i; 300 employees[2].
1992 Beans Engineering acquired Reliant, one of its largest customers, from the receivers which then developed the Scimitar Sabre[3].
1994 Went into receivership due to debts within some of its subsidiaries; the receiver planned to sell Reliant[4].