Morecambe Electrical Equipment Co
of Westgate Works, White Lund, Morecambe, Lancashire.
Specialists in A.C. motor control gear.
COUN. F. C. FAHY, (President of Morecambe and District Chamber of Trade, was one of the pioneers of the motor industry in the district, having put the first motor coach on the road in the North of England as far back as 1908. Messrs. Edmondson Bros. built to his order and design one of the first charabanc bodies that were put on a motor chassis. Mr. Fahy also pioneered the long distance motor coach tours and put on the first service of public omnibuses. These services were amalgamated with several other services in the district, under the name of L. and W. Motor Services, Ltd., of which Mr. F. C. Fahy was Managing Director. These services were extended, covering the area between Preston and Keswick. He is a Member of the Institute of Transport. When the motor omnibus business was disposed of to the Ribble Motor Services he resigned his position as Managing Director of the L. and W. Motor Services Co., and commenced a new industry, under the name of the Morecambe Electrical Equipment Company for the manufacture of switchgcar, etc. The activity of this company has grown extensively and products have been supplied as far away as South Africa and to the largest municipalties. The Firm of Fahy's Ltd., general motor engineers, has always been carried on as a separate company apart from the omnibus side of the business having been established in 1904 and in this Coun. Fahy is associated with his two brothers, Messrs. Joseph and James Fahy, and in the Morecambe Electrical Equipment Company, his codirector is Mr. J. W. Parkinson and Mr. W. H.. Wilkinson, the well-known electrical engineer is General Manager of the electrical department.....'[1]
1965 'The Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd., through their member company, the Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd.. of Loughborough. Leicestershire, have acquired the electric motor control gear arm of the Morecambe Electrical Equipment Co. Ltd. whose works are at Morecambe, Lancashire. Morecambe Electrical, which was founded in 1928 [?], moved to their present premises on the White Lund Industrial Estate in 1936 and now employ about 260 staff and work people. Brush has a payroll of more than 5,000 employees.'[2]