Versil
of Rayner Mills, Liversedge, Yorkshire. Telephone: Cleckheaton 56. Telegraphic Address: "Versil, Liversedge". London Office at Southwark Street, SE1. (1937)
1932 Private company.
1937 British Industries Fair Advert as Glass Silk Products for Insulation. Also battery plate separators; air filters; chemical filters. Boiler and Pipe Covering Materials. Heat Insulating Materials. Sound Deadening Materials. Sound Insulating Materials. Separators for Electric Accumulators. (Electricity: Industrial and Domestic Section - Stand No. Cb. 818) [1]
750 Motor Club Relay Race was run in 1953 at a very wet Silverstone circuit. W. D. Binns' drove a Mk V Buckler with a fibreglass body made by Versil. This is arguably the first fibreglass-bodied car made in the UK.
1958 Patent - Improvements in or relating to insulating material. [2]
1961 Glass fibre products manufacturers and thermal insulation engineers and contractors. 580 employees. [3]
1966 Patent - Improved mounting means for cladding around boilers and like structures. [4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair Advert p588; and 429
- ↑ [1] Wikipatents
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ [2] Wikipatents