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 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Pike Brothers, Fayle and Co

From Graces Guide

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.


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