Transport Equipment (Thornycroft)
1948 The vehicle making side of Thornycroft was put into a wholly-owned subsidiary Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) to prevent confusion with the shipbuilding Thornycroft company.
1948 Range included Nippy 3-ton, Sturdy 5/6-ton, Amazon 12-ton and Trusty 15-ton
1960 Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Ltd was taken over by ACV; production was limited to the Nubians, Big Bens and Antars.
1961 Commercial vehicle, marine and industrial motor manufacturers. [1]
1969 Thornycroft's Basingstoke factory was closed in 1969 and specialist vehicles transferred to Scammell at Watford.
1972 The American Eaton Corporation bought Thornycroft's Basingstoke factory from British Leyland for £5M. It has added Thornycroft's heavy gearbox facility to its axle manufacturing capacity[2].
See Also
- 1950 Motor Show
- 1952 Motor Show
- 1953 Who's Who in the Motor Industry: Companies T
- 1954 Commercial Motor Show
- 1954 Motor Show
- 1955 Motor Show
- 1958 Commercial Motor Show
- 1958 Motor Show
- 1959 Who's Who in the Motor Industry: Companies
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- 1962 Commercial Motor Show
- 1968 Commercial Motor Show
- 1968 Who's Who in the Motor Industry: Companies
- 1971 Who's Who in the Motor Industry: Companies
- Alan Francis Leslie Pollitt
- Associated Commercial Vehicles
- Automobile Engineer: 1951/03
- Automobile Engineer: 1954/11
- Automobile Engineer: 1954/12
- Charles Edward Burton
- David Birrell
- Gerald Stanley Walker Hulse
- James Thorpe
- John Richard Privett
- John Ward Thornycroft
- Leyland Motors
- Leyland Timeline
- Robert Franklin Newman
- Roger Thornycroft
- The Engineer 1949 Jul-Dec: Index
- The Engineer 1951 Jul-Dec: Index
- Thornycroft
- Thornycroft: Commercial Vehicles
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, 19 December 1972