T. M. Birkett, Billington and Newton
of Hanley and Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
1948 T. M. Birkett and Sons and Billington and Newton amalgamated. (see advert)
By 1954 the company was T. M. Birkett, Billington and Newton
1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Castings, bushes and bearings.
By 1969 the company was Birkett, Billington and Newton Ltd.
Birkett Billington & Newton merged with another Stoke-on-Trent foundry, Whyte and Collins, and were acquired by the Brookside Metal Group, who went on to acquire the assets of Meigh Castings of Cheltenham in 1991. In 1992 The Meigh Castings foundry transferred to Stoke-on-Trent. It has since been demerged from Brookside Metal and was later sold to an American casting company, MetalTek in 2007 and then, rescued from the brink of failure by the Westley Group who acquired the company in January 2017. In 1999, John Dudley led a management buy-out of Meigh Castings with Mark Hemus, taking a division of Meighs Castings to Burslem, and Copper Alloys was established.[1]