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 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 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.

High Duty Alloys

From Graces Guide

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August 1933. Hiduminium.
1940.
Sept 1940.
1942. Hiduminium.
1943.
1943.
April 1943.
May 1943
November 1943
March 1945. R.R.77.
October 1946.
January 1947.
April 1947.
May 1947.
January 1948.
March 1948.
May 1948.
1950.
1953. 12,000-Ton Forging Press for Light Alloys.
Sept 1953.
1955. 12,000-ton hydraulic forging press.[1]
January 1957.
April 1957.
November 1958.
1962.
May 1962.
July 1962.
October 1962.
May 1964.
1965.
November 1968.
1972.
1974.
1975.

of 81 Buckingham Avenue, Trading Estate, Slough

1920s Company founded by Wallace Charles Devereux to develop high strength alloys

1937 Aluminium alloys and Hiduminium. "Hiduminium" Aluminium Alloy.[2]

1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers

By 1960 was a Hawker Siddeley company (also see advert)

presumably later HDA Forgings, maker of aluminium alloy forgings[3]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia. Volume VIII. Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1955.
  2. * 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  3. 1985 HS Annual report