T. B. F. Thompson
of Belfast, holding company
Company formed by Thomas Bacon French Thompson
WWII Partnership with P. J. Pattison Nutt that leased several quarries from which they hauled stone to airfields under construction at Nutt's Corner and Millisle.
1946 Bought 70 ex-Army lorries at a war surplus sale at Toome
1947 the partnership bought the Strabane Service Station acquiring a young employee called R. J. (Bertie) Gillanders. It was the beginning of a lifetime's successful business partnership.
By the early 1950's the Thompson Motor Company had acquired a Hillman car franchise, together with Commer and Karrier commercial vehicles. The two-stroke Commer TS3 proved a best seller and Mr Thompson built the first extension to his premises.
1958 Became limited business as TBF Thompson (Garvagh) Ltd.
1971 Acquiring quarrying and road construction company R. J. Maxwell and Son
1977 Aquired Farrans (Construction) - the long established civil engineering firm that had constructed airfields, power stations, reservoirs, factories and housing complexes all over the United Kingdom. With Farrans came its subsidiaries - Ready Use Concrete, Scotts of Toomebridge, sand suppliers and manufacturer of roof tiles, J T Glover quarry owners of Moneymore and Carmean Limeworks also of Moneymore, Strangford Ltd of Dunmurry and Dublin, plant and machinery dealers selling Kue Ken crushers, Thwaites dumpers and Priestman excavators.
1978 Acquired by Cement Roadstone Holdings
1979 Garvagh Securities Ltd was incorporated
1986 Name changed to T. B. F. Thompson Ltd
1996 The Charles Hurst Corporation was incorporated; formerly known as T. B. F. Thompson Ltd[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Belfast Gazette 26 April 1996