Lang Wheels Manufacturing
of Hillingdon Heath, Uxbridge.
c.1900 Business established - see Lang Wheels Ltd
c.1930 A number of British firms, including Orton and Spooner, Robert Lakin, Lang Wheels and Rytecraft, had introduced Dodgem rides which made them more acceptable to British fairgrounds.
1933 New company formed: Lang Wheels Manufacturing
1935 'Last week readers had brought to their notice details of the decline of the business of wheel-making carried on by Lang Wheels (Holdings), Ltd., resulting in the liquidation of that Company. But that report only dealt with legal facts, and failed to relate the more interesting fact that a new and very interesting form of business is now carried on. The factory is still a scene of great activity, for a new company formed in 1933, styled Lang Wheels (Manufacturing) Ltd has created an entirely new business, that of manufacturing amusement devices for use in amusement parks and fairgrounds. The demands for its products have resulted in the enlargement of its factory, and further employment of local labour. The number of employees has been trebled in two years, and one may find roundabouts, hoop-has, and dodgem's being made and despatched to all parts of the country, including Scotland and Ireland. This flourishing and successful trade is due to enterprise shown by the new personnel who, when faced with the decline in one industry, turned to other fields of activity and established for themselves a new market, and became pioneers of a new industry.'[1]
1939 E. Elvey, director of Lang Wheels.[2]
Collaborated with Ruston and Hornsby.
1969 Business closed