Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,394 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.

TI Reynolds

From Graces Guide

1928 Reynolds Tube Co was acquired by Tube Investments.

1978 Name changed to TI Reynolds[1]

1981 Tube Investments acquired King Fifth Wheel, a private US company, maker of components for jet engines, a business already served in Europe by TI Reynolds. KFW's wholly-owned subsidiary Abar had a factory in North Carolina making high vacuum furnaces for heat treatment[2]

1986 TI established 3 new subsidiaries; the workers in the relevant manufacturing areas (i.e. Ring, Hollow Extrusion, Cycle Frame Tube) were transferred to the new businesses but the work continued at Hay Hall Works, Birmingham; the company would be limited to being a landlord:[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Companies house filing
  2. The Times, May 06, 1981
  3. 1986 Annual report