of Hucclecote, Gloucester
1959 Company formed by Hawker Siddeley to make automatic vending machines for the JV Primapax; the company was a subsidiary of Gloster Aircraft Co; the new company already produced coin-operated soft drink vending machines, Supreme fresh-tea machines and will licence the vending machines of Rowe Manufacturing Inc; also made agricultural equipment as well as fibre-glass components[1]
1965 Hawker Siddeley announced that it was merging two of its subsidiary companies in the engineering field, Gloster Equipment Ltd, and Saro (Anglesey) Ltd, to form a new company, Gloster Saro Ltd. Gloster Equipment's main products were road tankers and aircraft refuellers, an extensive range of agricultural machinery, automatic vending machines and a range of engineering products including a successful range of flow-measuring equipment widely used in the oil and chemical industry.[2]