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.
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.
of Sawston
1936 Private company.
1958 Became a subsidiary of GEC[1]
1961 Manufacturers of milking machines, metal cow stalls, farm buildings and water bowls.[2]
1975 GEC owned 95 percent of the ordinary shares
1981 GEC sold Simplex of Cambridge, Simplex Hosier and Simplex of Ireland[3]
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