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of Progress Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
Manufacturers of electrical control gear.
1945 Company founded as Machine Tool Electrics.
1969 Acquired Contactor Switchgear.
1974 Company acquired by Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Co.
1988 became part of Pilgrim House
1988 Sold to Williams Holdings
1989 Williams sold the business[1] to B. Elliott and Co.
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