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Minerva Detector Co

From Graces Guide

of Twickenham, presumably part of Minerva Fire Defence Ltd

1955 The Minerva Nuclear Detector was made and supplied by the company[1]

1959 The Minerva system of fire protection was installed in many companies by the Minerva Detector Co Ltd[2]

1968 Supplied smoke detectors for IMI when they opened the first liquid-metal-cooled vacuum titanium-melting furnace at Birmingham [3]

1969 Minerva Fire Defence was acquired by EMI[4]

By 1972 was a subsidiary of AFA-Minerva[5]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Oct. 25, 1955
  2. The Times Feb. 20, 1959
  3. The Engineer of 10th May 1968 p742
  4. The Times Nov. 1, 1969
  5. The Times Aug. 21, 1972