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Lucas Industries

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Chronology of this group:

1975 Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd changed its name to Lucas Industries; a campaign began to rebrand the subsidiary businesses as Lucas[1]

1975 Lucas's Simms Motor and Electronics Corporation subsidiary sold Horstman Camshafts to Weyburn Engineering[2]

1980 Sold Premier Precision Ltd (Bracknell) and Horstman Defence Systems Ltd (Bath) to Electrical and Industrial Securities [3][4]

1981 Chloride and Lucas form a joint venture reinforced with substantial government funds. The company was called Lucas Chloride EV Systems.[5]

1982 Due to a plummeting demand in America for Lucas CAV's Microjector, its US Greenville plant shut down completely for 10 weeks putting 240 production and support workers out of work.[6]

1983 Smiths Industries formed a joint venture with Lucas on vehicle control systems which was called Lucas Electrical Electronics and Systems, bringing together 5 plants from each partner [7]; Smiths would own about 20 percent of the venture[8].

Lucas Divisions included:

1996 Lucas Industries and the Varity Corporation of America merged to become LucasVarity plc[9]. Note: The first part of the Varity name is from the founder's initials - Victor. A. Rice

1999 LucasVarity was acquired by TRW, an American company.


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times Dec 17, 1974
  2. ↑ The Times, Feb 11, 1975
  3. ↑ The Times, Nov 29, 1980
  4. ↑ The Times, Jun 10, 1981
  5. ↑ The Engineer 1981/02/26
  6. ↑ The Engineer 1982/03/25
  7. ↑ The Times, Mar 29, 1983
  8. ↑ The Times, Apr 13, 1983
  9. ↑ The Times, October 09, 1996
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