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Oriental Tube Co

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of Church Lane, West Bromwich

1881 Company established.

1914 Tube manufacturers. Specialities: tubes for bedsteads, cycles and boilers, conduits for electric wiring.[1]

1917 Advert for steel tubes. [2]

1919 Advert for steel tubes. [3]

1921 Acquired by GEC

1937 Steel tube manufacturers. [4]

By 1953 Was a subsidiary company of GEC[5]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p99
  3. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p139
  4. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  5. ↑ GEC, its History, Structure and Future by T. W. Heather. 1953
  • AA. [1] Image courtesy of Aviation Ancestry
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