Ideal-Standard
of Ideal House, Great Marlborough House, London, W1.
of Kingston-upon-Hull
Presumably was previously Ideal Boilers and Radiators
1961 Ideal-Standard shares traded on the Stock Exchange[1]
1963 Offered a low-line bath for the home[2]
1965 Annual results noted that the company was controlled by American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation[3]
1968 Ideal-Standard of Hull acquired Valor's cisterns, bathroom and soil pipe businesses[4]; these plastics companies would continue to operate as separate businesses
1968 Joint venture formed with Marshall and Anderson to make and sell high pressure and low pressure steel boilers[5]
1970 Exited steel radiators when sold the business, acquired with Copperad, to Steel Radiators Ltd[7].
1970 Announced development of a commercial boiler for the European market, which had been constructed in integrated fashion on a single site, a first for this business [8]. Sold Soilpipes to Bartol Plastics[9]
1974 Sold Copperad to Myson[10]
1976 Sold the domestic and industrial boiler business to Metal Box Co[11].