Successor to Beans Industries
At some point the company was renamed Beans Engineering.
1972 British Leyland transferred its marine engine work to Beans, which had 1000 employees at Tipton sites[1].
1988 Management buyout from Rover with investment from 3i; 300 employees[2].
1992 Beans Engineering acquired Reliant, one of its largest customers, from the receivers which then developed the Scimitar Sabre[3].
1994 Went into receivership due to debts within some of its subsidiaries; the receiver planned to sell Reliant[4].