Central Manufacturing and Trading
of Halesowen Road, Dudley
Steel stockholders, metal processors, tubes, fittings and fabrications, light engineering, drop forging and castings, industrial services.
c.1935 Company incorporated[1]
1957 Share placing on Birmingham Stock Exchange[2]
1968 Acquired Midland Iron Group of Cradley Heath[3].
1969 Acquired Fletcher Houston[4]
1970 Acquired Motive Electric Services, and Norton Industries of Wolverhampton[5], A. Wells, makers of toys and plastic housewares[6], Perks and Stokes, scrap merchants. All iron and steel activities concentrated in the Norton business.
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Times, Friday, May 14, 1976