Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 165,122 pages of information and 246,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

National Research Development Corporation

From Graces Guide
February 1960. This Dracone was designed to carry 90,000 gallons of oil.
February 1960. Inside the Nylon and Rubber Dracone.
1980.

1948 The NRDC was established by the Labour government to meet a perceived need to exploit the many products that had been developed during World War II by the Defence Research Establishments. The first managing director was Lord Giffard.

1958 The first commercial size hovercraft, the SR-N1, was built under a contract let by the NRDC to Saunders-Roe.

1981 the NRDC was combined with the National Enterprise Board ('NEB') to form the British Technology Group ('BTG').[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. NRDCS [1]