Frederick Greenwood and Sons
From Graces Guide
of Rochdale, Lancs and and Drighlington
1860 Company founded.
1917 Private company.
1961 Engineers and machinists, manufacturing springs and stampings. 150 employees. [1]
1978 Acquired by Ropner Holdings.[2]
Makers of Storad, electric storage heaters
1989 Acquired John Shaw Graphics which was integrated with another Ropner subsidiary, Meltog, and the business of Edwin Mills and Son, trading as Milldale; the planned expansion of Greenwoods would continue.[3]
1989 Quartzray became a wholly-owned subsidiary
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Oct 12, 1978
- ↑ 1988 Annual report for Ropner