Crabtree-Vickers
Part of Vickers Printing Machinery
1965 Vickers acquired R. W. Crabtree and Sons.
1966 Crabtree-Vickers was established by Vickers as Britain's foremost printing machinery manufacturer.
1977 Crabtree-Vickers Leeds was formed and was the only British manufacturer of a range of sheet and web fed offset printing presses and the home of Crabtree-Vickers newspress [1]
1980 The 900 series press was produced.[2]
1982 Crabtree-Vickers moved into Europe's newest printing machinery facility.[3]
1984 Crabtree Vickers Gateshead achieved increased business; Crabtree Vickers Leeds, after substantial rationalisation, returned to profit.[4]
1986 The Crabtree Vickers Gateshead business was acquired by its management; it was renamed Crabtree of Gateshead[5]
1993 Crabtree Printing Machinery was incorporated. Closure of the Leathley Road works; sale of stock and transfer of some staff to Saddleton Machinery Ltd of Leeds[6]
Company website today: [2]