Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,965 pages of information and 246,440 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.
1964 James Pain and Sons and Waeco, both members of the British Match Group were amalgamated as Pains-Wessex; the new company was based at Salisbury; production of Pain's fireworks was transferred from Mitcham[1]
1985 was still owned by Allegheny International[2]
1986 Chemring acquired the company
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