Components Tube Co
of Bournbrook, Birmingham, tube manufacturers
- 1897 Cycle Components Manufacturing Co separated its tube making business as a separate company The Components Tube Co Ltd[1] and sold it to E. T. Hooley. The company was subsequently floated[2]. Directors:
- Harvey Du Cros Junior, Managing Director
- Frederick Faber MacCabe
- R. J. Mecredy
- Charles Sangster
- Alexis de Beck
- B. B. Tuke
- The aim was to enable expansion of the business originally that of Hudson and Co which had been acquired by Cycle Components Manufacturing Co in 1894. Mr Charles Sangster, works manager of Cycle Components Manufacturing Co would take a seat on the board of the new company. This was one of the many company flotations promoted by Hooley