Bonser Engineering
Bonser Engineering, Mechanical Handling Division of Nottingham Road, Giltbrook, Notts.
c.1948 Company incorporated[1]
1957 Introduced its first hydraulic mining machine.
1964 Makers of mechanical handling equipment, hydraulic mining and industrial equipment; shares placed with plans for listing on the Birmingham exchange[2]
1966 One of 3 suppliers of pit props for long-wall mining to the National Coal Board; this had largely replaced agriculture and horticulture as the firm's main business; new factory and research department opened at Giltbrook, Notts[3]. Mr F Bonser was chairman.
1967 Another major line was fork-lift trucks, 40 percent of which were exported[4]
1969 Introduced a line of battery electric fork-lift trucks, on addition to the diesel-engined trucks[5]. Under encouragement from the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, sold the mining equipment business to Dowty Mining Equipment[6]
1970 Acquired George Brough, precision engineers of Nottingham[7]
1973 Acquired Bristol Pneumatic Tools from the trustees of the late Frank Bonser; this would be complementary to the existing businesses which had just received orders for fork-lift trucks and dumpers[8]
1976 Became the first publicly-quoted British company to introduce a 2-tier board, as on the Continent[9]
1978 Acquired by the Kaye Organisation[10]
1981 Bensor Engineering of Giltbrook closed[11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Jun 28, 1968
- ↑ The Times, Jul 03, 1964
- ↑ The Times Jan 31, 1966
- ↑ The Times May 03, 1967
- ↑ The Times , 1969
- ↑ The Times (London, England), Saturday, Nov 08, 1969
- ↑ The Times Aug 29, 1970
- ↑ The Times, Oct 12, 1973
- ↑ The Times, May 11, 1976
- ↑ The Times, Sep 13, 1978
- ↑ The Times, Feb 07, 1981