J. Evans and Son (Portsmouth)
of Marcyn Works, Goldsmith Avenue, Portsmouth
1920 Company founded by Jack Evans and his son William Jack Evans.
Evans cable lubricator, brush making and plastics machines.
During World War II the company supplied 660 Sets of Halifax undercarriages to the RAF. They also produced undercarriages of Horsa Mark II Gliders for the war efforts.[1]
The Portsmouth works were requisitioned under Defence Regulations, but were regained after the war.
1944 By now the firm had made great progress and a continuous stream of equipment for the Forces was leaving the works. In March this year Queen Mary paid a visit to the firm (commemorated in The Story of a Successful Enterprise booklet available to view below).
1945 C. L. Weldon is director of the company. After the war the firm turned a section of the works over to the manufacture of cartoning machinery for milk and other liquid packaging.
1953 Employing around 200 men.[2]
1955 Reference to the company still trading.[3]
1945 - Read: The Story of a Successful Enterprise - a little booklet published about the company's business until the end of World War II.