John Wright and Co
of Essex Works, Aston, Birmingham. Telephone: Birmingham Central 2169. Telegraphic Address: "Eureka".
1862 Company established.
1878 Gained an honourable mention in the class: Cooking apparatus adapted to the requirements of a middle-class family of from six to ten persons, at the Exhibition of Gas Apparatus in Birmingham. Also in other sections of the exhibition.
1890 John Wright and Co was registered on 21 June, to take over the business of gas engineers of the firm of the same name carried on by John Frederic Wright and George Ernest Wright in Birmingham and also in London, and also the Argosy Fine Castings Co.
1898 Gas cookers and other gas appliances[1]
1900 In July, the undertaking of the Eagle Range and Gas Stove Co (registered in 1894 as the Eagle Range and Foundry Co) was absorbed. The name was then changed to John Wright and Eagle Range [2]
By 1914 John Wright and Eagle Range was amalgamated with Eagle Range and Grate Co
1919 Radiation Ltd was formed to acquire any or all of the shares of John Wright and Eagle Range and Richmond Gas Stove Co[3]
1932 Company made private. John Wright and Eagle Range was renamed John Wright and Co Ltd
1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. "Regulo" controlled New World Gas Cookers. High "Beam" Gas fires. Gas Radiators. Gas-operated Hot-water Apparatus and large cooking apparatus for hotels and boarding houses. (Stand Nos. Ca.603 and Ca.502) [4]
1961 Manufacturers of kitchen ranges, gas fires and cookers and space heaters. 1,200 employees. [5]
1964 John Wright and Co was renamed Radiation Gas Fires Ltd
1967 Radiation was taken over by Tube Investments[6].
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Historic England
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Times, 7 June 1919
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair p437
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, 24 August 1967