Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 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.

Cortworth

From Graces Guide

1993 New company formed to own 6 engineering companies bought-out of Williams Holdings, including Newage Transmissions and Rotalac[1], Aerospace Forgings, Diamond H Controls, Bridgtown, George Wilson[2]. Williams retained a substantial stake in Cortworth.

1995 1200 employees at the time the company was floated[3]

1997 Acquired by private company BI Group[4]

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Times, April 15, 1994
  2. The Times, December 22, 1993
  3. The Times, November 17, 1995
  4. The Times, July 26, 1997