TI Reynolds
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]
- TI Reynolds Rings Ltd
- TI Hollow Extrusions Ltd
- TI Reynolds 531 Ltd