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.

Coley-Rotolin

From Graces Guide

Coley-Rotolin Group

Combination of Coley Brothers (Tools) and Rotolin Bearings[1]

1971 Shares quoted on the Stock Exchange

1971 Acquired Dundee Linoleum[2]

1972 Acquired E. C. Hopkins. Acquired Frederick Cooper (Birmingham), which would fit well with its existing activities[3] but this deal soon collapsed[4]

1972 Yet only a month later, they sold Frederick Cooper (Birmingham) to Wilkes and Godwin, Birmingham metal finisher[5]

1973 Purchased goodwill and certain assets of Die Sets and Purefoy Unit Tooling[6]

1974 Acquired by F. H. Lloyd Holdings[7]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times June 11, 1971
  2. The Times, July 22, 1971
  3. The Times May 17, 1972
  4. The Times July 29, 1972
  5. The Times June 20, 1972
  6. The Times July 12, 1973
  7. The Times, Nov. 14, 1974