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 165,111 pages of information and 246,466 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.

Siemens-Schuckertwerke

From Graces Guide

1903 Siemens and Halske AG merged the heavy current parts of its activities with Schuckert and Co. of Nuremberg to become Siemens-Schuckertwerke GmbH.[1]

Early 1900s was one of the three largest electrical firms in Germany

c.1903 The British Schuckert Electric Co. was acquired by Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Berlin, and the company was wound up.

c.1912 Built a tricycle with electric propulsion applied to the back wheel, used for transport of light goods.

At some stage (1925?) Siemens-Schuckert Co was formed as the British arm of the company.

1930s The Siemens-Schuckertwerke company became wholly-owned by Siemens and Halske AG

1966 Siemens AG was formed, bringing together Siemens and Halske AG, (involved in low- voltage electrical products and public and private telephone systems), Siemens Schukertwerke (the power production and high-voltage electrical products company), and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke, in order to be able respond to changes in technology and in the global markets for electrical technology.[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. Wikipedia
  2. MMC report 1989