Pike Brothers, Fayle and Co
of Wareham, extraction of clay, gravel, etc
1949 Company formed by merger of 2 Dorset quarry companies - Pike Brothers (Wareham) Ltd and B. Fayle and Co Ltd
1960s owned by ECC
1973 name changed to S. and A. Geophysical Ltd
By 1974 English China Clays owned all of the preference shares which were then converted to ordinary shares.
1979 The company was a private company when new articles of association were agreed.
1979 Name changed to Horizon Exploration Ltd, consulting geophysicists and geologists.