Switchgear and Cowans
of Elsinore Road, Old Trafford, Manchester.
of Victoria Works, Springfield Lane, Salford. (1914)
1911 Private company. Incorporated to combine the Switchgear Co. Ltd. and Cowans Ltd.
1914 Manufacturing electrical engineers. Specialities; electrical controlling gear for public electricity supply works, battleships, dockyards etc. Employees 200 to 300. [1]
1924 Description of switchgear and induction regulators at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition[2]
1936 Company made public. Messrs Sermon and Waller, founding managing directors of the company, sold their shares to W. H. Botsford and Co[3]. The new managing director was J. E. Chamberlain who had worked for 15 years for Hewittic Electric Co.
1960 Combined Electrical Manufacturers Ltd formed as a public company to amalgamate Hackbridge and Hewittic Electric Co Ltd and Switchgear and Cowans Ltd[4].
1961 Electrical engineers specialising in high and low voltage switchgear and mining switchgear. 1,200 employees. [5]
1964 Part of Combined Electrical Manufacturers Ltd[6].
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Engineering 1924/07/25
- ↑ The Times 28 April 1936
- ↑ The Times, 1 September 1961
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, 7 August 1964