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 167,649 pages of information and 247,065 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.

Jackson Industries

From Graces Guide
Electric Heater.
1963. Jackson Electric Cookers.

of Luton, maker of electric cookers and refrigerators (1961)

1914 Jackson Electric Stove Co was established

1915 Jackson Electric Stove Co, of Baker Street, London, electrical engineers, with Robert Constantine Griesbach, Herbert Henry Holmes, Charles Hubert Smith and Frederick Horace Williams patented "Improvements in and/or connected with Electric Cooking". The company continued gaining patents under this name until 1956.

1956 Name changed to Jackson Industries

By 1958 Jackson Industries had been acquired by Radiation

1959 Jackson Industries

1961 Manufacturers of electric cooking, heating and water heating appliances, refrigerators and heavy duty cooking appliances.

1961 Jackson Industries closed its Luton factory and transferred production to the Parnall factory at Yate[1]

1967 Radiation was acquired by Tube Investments

1986 TI Jackson of Bristol; designing and manufacturing Creda tumble dryers, water heaters and motors[2]:

1987 GEC acquired TI Jackson

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times July 4, 1961
  2. Halifax Evening Courier 06 March 1986