Brooke Tool Manufacturing Co
of Belgrave Road, Birmingham.
of Warwick Road, Greet, Birmingham 11 (1917). Telephone: Victoria 2235. Telegraphic Address: "Saws, Birmingham"
1903 Company founded to acquire 2 private companies: Brooke Tool and Stamping Co and Brooke Tool Manufacturing Co.
1917 Advert for small tools. [1]
1919 Advert for tools. [2]
1937 Machinists for aircraft trade, tool makers. [3]
1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Engineers' Small Tools of every description. Engineers' Small Tools, consisting of High Speed Steel Milling Cutters, Twist Drills, Reamers, Saws, Counterbores, etc. Also Drill Chucks (three types), Machine Vices, Tapping Attachments, Suds Pumps, Jigs, Broaches, etc. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.623) [4]
1938 Converted into a public company
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1940 Advert for tools. [5]
1945 Advert for tools. Drills, reamers, chucks, sleeves, sockets etc. [6]
1960 Advert. Tools. [7]
1960 Reorganisation of the manufacturing activities of the company included formation of a subsidiary, Brooke Tool Automation Ltd, which took over the branch factory at Perry Barr which manufactured unit heads, special-purpose machines, and jigs and fixtures[8]
1961 700 employees. [9]
By 1963 was part of Rubery, Owen and Co[10]
1966 February: most of the company's shares were held by Rubery Owen[11]
1966 March: The Rubery share-holding was substantial but not a majority[12]
1968 Subsidiaries included[13]:
- Harrison
- Boxford
- Fred Whiteley
- Steel Fabrications (Halifax)
- Brooke Tool Automation
1969 Name changed to Brooke-Harrison Holdings[14]
1971 T S Harrison was sold to 600 Group; Brooke Tool Manufacturing had cut staff and costs and planned new investment[15]
1972 Brooke Tool Engineering (Holdings) was expected to have broken-even in 1971[16]
1996 The Brooke Tool Engineering company was still operating
See Also
- 1918 Directory of Manufacturers in Engineering and Allied Trades: Company B
- 1922 Who's Who In Engineering: Company B
- 1923 British Industries Fair
- 1926 British Industries Fair
- 1927 British Industries Fair
- 1930 Industrial Britain: Brooke Tool Manufacturing Co
- 1937 British Industries Fair
- 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- 1938 Ironmonger Diary and Hardware Buyers Guide: Companies B
- 1939 Suppliers to the Aircraft Industry
- 1957 British Industries Fair: Companies B
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- 1968 Who's Who in the Motor Industry: Companies
- 1971 Who's Who in the Motor Industry: Companies
- 1993 Key British Enterprises
- Alfred Ernest Owen
- Automobile Engineer: 1933/08
- Automobile Engineer: 1938/07
- British Engineers' Small Tools and Equipment Co
- Brooke Tool Automation
- Charles Frederick Luckman Mace
- Denfords Engineering Co
- Engineering 1907 Jul-Dec: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
- Engineering 1918 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index
- Engineering 1938 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
- Engineering 1939 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs
- Ernest Charles Law
- Hyla Stone Holden
- Owen Organisation
- Rubery, Owen and Co
- Stanley Charles Icke
- T. S. Harrison and Sons
- The Engineer 1922/03/10
- The Engineer 1923/03/02
- The Engineer 1926/02/26
- The Engineer 1927/03/04 Supplement
- The Engineer 1927/03/11
- The Engineer 1933 Jan-Jun: Index
- The Engineer 1946 Jan-Jun: Index
Sources of Information
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1917. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p102
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1919. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p142
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair Advert p607; and p342
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p41
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p53
- ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1960. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p117
- ↑ The Times, Oct 04, 1960
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Oct 09, 1963
- ↑ The Times, Feb 23, 1966
- ↑ The Times Mar 17, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Apr 01, 1968
- ↑ The Times Apr 18, 1969
- ↑ The Times, Oct 26, 1971
- ↑ The Times, Mar 16, 1972
- The Times, Nov 23, 1938