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Latest revision as of 10:46, 25 April 2020
Electric and power tool manufacturers, of 6 Parsons Green, London SW6. (1945)
of Bridges Place, Parsons Green Lane, London, SW6. (1950)
of York Road, Battersea, London, SW11. (1961)
1937 Company founded.
1941 Private company.
1950 Patent - Improvements in or relating to homogenising apparatus. [1]
1956 John Brown and Co increased its shareholding in the company, so that it became a subsidiary of John Browns.[2]
1960 Patent - as Stanley-Bridges Limited (formerly S. N. Bridges and Co, Limited) - Improvements in thermally-operated electric overload circuit-breakers. [3]
1961 Precision engineers and tool makers. Manufacturers of portable electric tools, attachments and accessories. 600 employees. [4]
1961 Stanley Works (Great Britain) purchased all of the shares in the company from John Brown and others.[5]