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 167,711 pages of information and 247,105 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.

Tomado

From Graces Guide

of Green Lane Industrial Estate, Spennymoor, Durham.

1970 Tomado Ltd., Spennymoor, Co. Durham. The latest Tomado factory, recently opened in Spennymoor.[1]

1978 HSE listing: Tomado Ltd. Green Lane Industrial Estate, Spennymore.[2]

1985 Spennymoor-based Tornado Ltd., one of the country's ... signed a deal with Huntsmen Chemicals. It will be responsible for the distribution of ... polystyrene in the North-East.[3]

1986 Wire manufacturers Tomado, of Spennymoor[4]

1986 "... and piping at its Oxnam Road factory, announced this week that it had bought a rival firm, Tomado Limited, of Spennymoor, Co. Durham. The sale, which involves Tomado’s plastic garment hanger operation and plastics reclaiming factory, will provide an increase ...[5]. Could this refer to a predecessor of Mainetti (UK) Ltd which was located on Oxnam Road, Jedburgh, making plastic products in the 1990s[6]?

1991 Wire rack manufacturers Tomado of Spennymoor[7]

2008 Company wound up voluntarily[8]

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Sources of Information

  1. Newcastle Journal 28 November 1970
  2. The London Gazette 17 April 1978
  3. Newcastle Journal 10 April 1985
  4. Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 13 June 1986
  5. Southern Reporter 27 February 1986
  6. Companies house filing
  7. Newcastle Journal 09 February 1991
  8. London Gazette 7 November 2008