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 167,394 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Brush Group

From Graces Guide

1955 The name of the Brush ABOE Group would be changed to The Brush Group Ltd[1]. New name and group organisation was implemented with effect from 1 January 1956.

1957 Offer received from Hawker Siddeley Group for the Brush Group which would help alleviate Brush's shortage of capital.[2]. The Brush companies were incorporated into the Hawker Siddeley Group under their trading names. Within the Hawker Siddeley Group the company manufactured a vast range of electrical products including turbo-generators, salient pole machines, induction motors, traction motors and generators, traction locomotives, switchgear, transformers and fuses.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, 29 April 1955
  2. The Times, 7 May 1957