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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Lucas Industries

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Chronology of this group:

1975 Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd changed its name to Lucas Industries; a campaign began to rebrand the subsidiary businesses as Lucas[1]

1983 Smiths Industries formed a joint venture with Lucas on vehicle control systems which was called Lucas Electrical Electronics and Systems, bringing together 5 plants from each partner [2]; Smiths would own about 20 percent of the venture[3].

1996 Merger formed Lucas Varity plc[4]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Dec 17, 1974
  2. The Times, Mar 29, 1983
  3. The Times, Apr 13, 1983
  4. The Times, October 09, 1996