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 167,645 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.

George Fischer

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Part of the Georg Fischer Group

1933 Georg Fischer bought Britannia Iron and Steel Works Ltd. of Bedford and began to produce malleable cast iron fittings in Britain. George Fischer (Great Britain) Ltd was incorporated[1]

1948 George Fischer Ltd offered a Copying Lathe.

1980 Acquired Leys Malleable Castings Co (Lincoln) Ltd

By 1994 the company had active subsidiaries:[2]

c.2004 The Lincoln operation was sold to Meade Corporation and renamed Lincoln Castings, except for the LM2 production line which was transferred to Germany[3]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Companies House filing
  2. 1994 annual report
  3. 2005 Annual report