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Sterling Metals

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July 1910.
January 1920.
1926.
November 1926.
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of St. Georges Works and Foundry, Northey Road, Coventry

of Nuneaton

1907 Company incorporated to carry on business as founders of all types of metal.

1912 Directory: Listed as Iron, Brass and Aluminium Founders. [1]

1936 Birmid Industries founded; incorporated Sterling Metals[2].

1937 Castings in Elektron (magnesium) and aluminium alloys. [3]. Sterling Metals made Birmid Industries a leader in magnesium foundry work[4].

1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers

1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Cast iron cylinder blocks and heads. Of Gipsy Lane, Nuneaton. [5]

1982 By now was part of the Birmid Qualcast (Foundries). Specialised in diesel engine blocks and aerospace, missiles, turbine and road wheels.[6]

1988 Name of Sterling Metals Ltd was changed to Sterling Components Ltd but does not seem to have been officially approved.

1988 Name Sterling Metals Ltd was changed to Sterling International Technology Ltd

1990 A subsidiary of Christy Hunt Plc


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Spennell's Annual Directory of Coventry and District, 1912-13 p791
  2. ↑ The Times, 3 December 1937
  3. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  4. ↑ The Times, 3 December 1937
  5. ↑ 1963 Motor Show
  6. ↑ The Engineer 1982/03/04
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