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 164,250 pages of information and 246,077 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Beans Engineering

From Graces Guide

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].

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Nov 30, 1972
  2. The Times, March 02, 1988
  3. The Times, July 17, 1992
  4. The Times, January 16, 1995