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.

D. K. B. Electric

From Graces Guide

of Windsor Avenue, Merton Abbey, S.W.19.

Maker of non-electrical aluminium wire

1959 D. K. B. Electric, Windsor Avenue, Merton Abbey.[1]

1967 The company was expanding. Alcan Industries acquired 90 percent of the share capital; Alcan was the major supplier to the company[2]

By 1969 had been renamed as Alcan Wire Ltd, maker of aluminium welding wire and other non-electrical wires

By 1973 was a subsidiary of Alcan Booth Industries

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Sources of Information

  1. Clapham Observer - Friday 09 October 1959
  2. The Times, Nov 13, 1967