Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,735 pages of information and 247,134 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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of Northgate Works, Chester
1937 Manufacturers of electric motor control gear.
1943 Metal Industries acquired Electrical Switchgear and Associated Manufacturers Ltd, which owned Brookhirst Switchgear Ltd[1].
By 1947 owned Cantie Switches of Chester
1960 Metal Industries integrated its long established subsidiaries Brookhirst Switchgear Ltd and Igranic Electric Co Ltd into Brookhirst Igranic Ltd[2].
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