Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Fife Engineering Co

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Fife Engineering Co (FENCO) of Fenco House, Elie, Fife

1944 Fife Engineering Company Limited was incorporated, with capital of £1,000, to carry on business as mechanical, electrical, motor, gas, and hydraulic engineers, and engineers' merchants.[1]

1950 Advert: 'Extra capacity available to 30 in. dia., centre and repetition turning, milling, shaping, drilling and welding. Assemblies undertaken. Experimental work and model making a speciality. The Fife Engineering Co., Ltd., Fenco House, Elie, Fife.'[2]

In the late 1940s the firm made a batch of monkey automata to advertise Peter Pan Scotch Oats (made by the Angus Milling Co in Kirriemuir).

1954 The company was wound up voluntarily.[3]

See Also

Sources of Information

  1. The Scotsman 4 November 1944
  2. Dundee Courier - Wednesday 2 August 1950
  3. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/17175/page/223
  • National Records of Scotland BT2/22985