Knitmaster
Knitting machine manufacturer, of Kensington Church Street, London
1949 Company founded.
1950 Private company.
1956 The Chinese Engineering and Mining Co acquired Knitmaster[1]. The name of the holding company was changed to Knitmaster Holdings[2]
Knitmaster Holdings
1957 Public company
1957 Knitmaster Holdings acquired H. L. Reynolds of Leeds, steel stockholders and structural and sheet metal engineers which had been incorporated in 1943[3]
1959 The company acquired W. J. Harris and Co and the Mulberry Co; the name of Knitmaster Holdings was changed to Amalgamated Industrials Ltd[4].
1959 Acquired the Mulberry Company (D. H. and L. Pickard Ltd and Group Four Metals Ltd)[5]
1960 Acquired A. H. Bland, makers of heat sealing machinery[6] and H. Massil and Sons (Wolverhampton) [7]
1960 Company was moving into metals, metal processing, light machinery and engineering, attaining a leading position in each field of operation[8]
1961 Wholesalers and distributors of Knitmaster knitting machines. [9]