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 165,111 pages of information and 246,466 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.

Idoson Motor Cylinder Co

From Graces Guide

of Ballot St., Smethwick (1938)

of Tipton, supplier of cylinder barrel and head castings to the motor cycle factories


1926 was in business[1]

1927 New workshop built for the company in Ballot Street[2]

1947 William Jackson was a director of Idoson Motor Cylinder Co. and T. and J. Foundries, Ltd., Birmingham.[3]

1955 Acquired by BSA[4]. Became one of BSA's general engineering companies.

1962 Had one of the most highly mechanised shell moulding units in the country.[5]

By 1963 was a member of the BSA Metal Components Division

1965 Became B.S.A. Foundries[6]


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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Daily Gazette 21 June 1926
  2. Smethwick Telephone 31 December 1927
  3. Stratford-upon-Avon Herald 08 August 1947
  4. Coventry Evening Telegraph 14 November 1955
  5. Peterborough Evening Telegraph 15 March 1962
  6. Wolverhampton Express and Star 03 November 1965