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 167,639 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.

WGI Group

From Graces Guide

of Albion Iron Works, Miles Platting

of Lloyds House, Alderley Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire.

1959 West's Gas Improvement Co was re-registered as the Holding Company of the WGI Group

1968 Operating companies in the UK were:[1]

1975 Subsidiaries included in Britain:[2]

1975 Acquired Cox and Wright pneumatics from Evode.[3]

1978 Acquired Dowsett Piling and Foundations.[4]

1982 Renamed West's Group International plc

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Oct. 10, 1968
  2. 1975 Annual report
  3. The Times, December 30, 1975
  4. The Times, November 25, 1978