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1959 Formation of [[AMF International]] based in London
1959 Formation of [[AMF International]] based in London
1960 American Machine and Foundry Company established a factory at Whitstable to assembler the special automatic equipment required for the new sport of ten-pin bowling.<ref>Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 30 July 1960</ref>
1960 AMF acquired [[Robert Legg]], maker of tobacco machinery, which became [[AMF Legg]]
1961 AMF acquired [[D. K. Hamblin and Co]], maker of tobacco machinery, which became '''AMF Hamblin'''
1962 [[Frederick Braby and Co|Frederick Braby Group]] made evaporators for the [[Maxim Silencers|Maxim]] division of AMF International which supplied them for the "Transvaal Castle" <ref>The Times, Jan 18, 1962</ref>
1965 AMF International was making tobacco machinery at Andover ([[AMF Legg]]) and Radcliffe-on-Trent ([[D. K. Hamblin and Co|AMF Hamblin]]) and filter and evaporators at Reading<ref> The Times, Oct 29, 1965</ref>
1967 AMF International acquired part of the Shorts Brothers and Harland plant in Belfast to make pressure vessels for LPG storage<ref>The Times , Apr 25, 1967</ref>
1968 AMF International had British subsidiaries <ref>The Times, Oct 10, 1968</ref>:
* AMF Beaird-Belfast made gas equipment
* Manufacturing bowling equipment at Whitstable
* [[AMF Legg]] making tobacco machinery at Andover
* Making electrical products at Oxford
* Making Industrial and Food Machinery
* Making Recreational equipment
1970 Acquired [[Venner]]; the US parent also made time switches<ref> The Times, Mar 05, 1970</ref>
1970 Cuno Filter Division made filtration equipment at Reading<ref>The Times Oct 09, 1970</ref>
1985 Parent company AMF was acquired through hostile takeover by Minstar Inc., a Minneapolis-based holding company, which then sold off various divisions.<ref>Wikipedia</ref>
1992 AMF International was put into liquidation<ref>The Times, January 24, 1992</ref>
== See Also ==
== See Also ==
Revision as of 08:51, 25 July 2023
1964.
c.1900 Company founded
Manufacturer of Standard cigarette making machines
1919 Set up a United Kingdom subsidiary.
Standard machines started to be installed in increasing numbers in the factories of Imperial Tobacco Co's branches, gradually superseding the earlier Bonsack machines.
At first the Standard machines were imported from America; later many of those used by Imperial were manufactured under licence by Brecknell, Munro and Rogers Ltd.
1920 Imperial and British American Tobacco together acquired a majority of the shares in Brecknell, whose main business was the manufacture of machinery for the tobacco industry.
