1965 Vickers acquired R. W. Crabtree and Sons.
1966 Crabtree-Vickers was established by Vickers as Britain's foremost printing machinery manufacturer.
1977 Crabtree-Vickers Leeds was formed and was the only British manufacturer of a range of sheet and web fed offset printing presses and the home of Crabtree-Vickers newspress [1]
1980 The 900 series press was produced.[2]
1982 Crabtree-Vickers moved into Europe's newest printing machinery facility.[3]
1993 Crabtree Printing Machinery was incorporated.[4]
Company website today: [2]