Engineering and Lighting Equipment Co
of Sphere Works, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.
1895 Company founded.
1920 Formation of Engineering and Lighting Equipment Co by George Joseph Wells and William Bird specifically to acquire the Engineering and Arc Lamps company. Considerable expansion of the business followed.
1920 April. Issued catalogue of fittings for half-watt and metal filament lamps.[1]
1939 Public company consisting of 2 distinct parts - lighting and general engineering.[2]
1961 Acquired Bell and Webster Industries[3]
1961 Manufacturers of "ELECO" electrical-street lighting equipment, fluorescent fittings, industrial lighting fittings, fuse boards and power panels, non-ferrous and light alloy castings, general and precision engineering, argonarc welding, plastic-phenolic, thermo-setting precision, mouldings, jigs, dies and tools for plastic mouldings. Specialists in complete street and industrial lighting layouts. 650 employees.[4]
1961 Name changed to Eleco Ltd
1965 Name changed to Eleco Holdings Ltd
1972 Acquired the structural steel fabricating division of A. H. Allen and Co[5] which would be carried on as Allen Structures and Cranes, part of the Construction Division.[6]
1981 Eleco Holdings was re-registered as a plc.
1986 Eleco Holdings PLC owned a number of subsidiaries:[7]
- B and H (Warehousing and Distribution) Ltd
- Bell and Webster Ltd
- Davis Group Ltd
- Motor Transport (Welwyn) Ltd
- Topsy Foods Ltd
- Webster Properties Ltd
and a number of other subsidiaries that were inactive
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 30th April 1920 p438
- ↑ The Times July 25, 1939
- ↑ Companies house filing
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, May 20, 1972
- ↑ The Times May 22, 1972
- ↑ 1986 Annual report