Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

How Group

From Graces Guide

Heating and ventilating engineers

1947 Cecil P. How set up his company

1965 Rosser Heating Ltd was renamed How-Rosser Limited

1965 The How Group Ltd was of Newcastle under Lyme[1]

1968 The How group, in conjunction with a Swedish company, had successfully added the manufacturing of air conditioning plant to its business repertoire[2]

1973 Name of How-Rosser changed to How Group Ltd

1976 Name changed to How Group International Ltd

1983 Name changed to How Engineering Services Ltd

1987 How Group plc was listed on the Stock Exchange

1998 Tilbury Douglas acquired How Group[3]

2004 Became Interserve Engineering Services Ltd

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times June 21, 1965
  2. The Times Mar. 25, 1968
  3. The Times May 14, 1998
  • Companies house filings