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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.
of Preston
1908 Company founded - see Atkinson
1933 Became private company
1955 Name changed to Atkinson Vehicles
1961 Commercial vehicle manufacturers specialising in diesel-engined chassis and complete vehicles. 320 employees
1970 Atkinson merged with Seddon of Oldham
1974 Vehicles marked as Seddon-Atkinson after Seddon was acquired by International Harvester of America.
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