Rists Wires and Cables
of Newcastle-under-Lyme
1902 Company founded.
1927 Private company formed as Flexible Electric Cords Ltd.
1935 Name changed.
1934 A. Rist (1927) Ltd, a subsidiary of Joseph Lucas Ltd, acquired Flexible Electric Cords, a small company manufacturing electric cable for motor vehicles and other uses; this company then changed its name to Rists Wires and Cables Ltd. Lucas has said that it financed this development in order to safeguard the supply of cable for use with its electrical equipment as it wanted to have a source of supply outside the cable manufacturers' "ring" that existed at that time.
1936 A. Rist (1927) Ltd was wound up and its business in ignition coils and other motor goods was taken over by Rists Wires & Cables. The principal product of the company became cable harness, used in conjunction with reference equipment.
1949 Subsidiary K. X. Lamps Ltd. formed, with a factory at Middlesbrough, to manufacture filament light bulbs
1961 Manufacturers of electrical cables, flexibles and wiring assemblies for the motor, electrical and radio trades. 3,200 employees. [1]
1962 Rists Wires & Cables Ltd. ended its manufacture of ignition coils.
1974 Fabrostrip, a flat strip wiring harness for car and other products, was awarded a Design Council Engineering Award.[2]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Engineer 1974/05/02
- Competition Commission