Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering
From Graces Guide
Workers' cooperative of Kirkby, Liverpool based on the Fisher-Bendix factory
1961 Fisher and Ludlow moved their domestic appliance division to a purpose-made factory at Kirkby, Lancs [1], making Bendix washing machines, Fisholow stainless steel sinks and pressed steel radiators. The Kirkby factory could employ 3,000 workers.
By the mid-1970s the market for their products — night storage radiators, central heating radiators and the bottling of fruit juice was very gloomy.
Five owners had not made a trading profit from the factory
1974 Kirby Manufacturing and Engineering was established with a government grant to run the factory as a worker's cooperative
1978 Acquired by Worcester Engineering
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 24 February 1971