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John Wallace and Sons, Agricultural Implement Manufacturers, of Graham Square, Glasgow; works at Paton St, Glasgow, and later a holding company.
1857 Company founded.
1894 June. Royal Agricultural Society's Show. Potato Digger [1]
1896 Limited company registered.
1911 Potato digger exhibited[2]
1914 New works at Paton St, Glasgow.
1918 Incorporated in a new company, Wallace Farm Implements Ltd[3].
1918 Entered contract with British Motor Trading Corporation to supply the whole production of Glasgow tractors for 5 years from 1920.
1919 The largest maker of agricultural implements in Scotland[4]
1920 Wallace Farm Implements Ltd was acquired by a new public company Wallace (Glasgow)
1920 Produced the Burt single sleeve-valve petrol engine [5]
1920 Produced the Glasgow engine in 3 and 6-8 bhp sizes. [6]
1924 Private company.
1924 John Wallace and Sons held its first annual general meeting[7]
1926 Silver medal at the Royal Show[8]
1946 Public offer for sale of shares[9]
1955 Acquired A. Baird and Sons, motor vehicle distributor and electrical retailer
1960 Acquired Claridge, Lewis and Jordan, printers, of Wardour St, London, and Praills (Hereford)[10]
1961 Manufacturers of agricultural machinery and implements including elevator potato diggers, spinner potato diggers, grain drills and turnip sowers. 100 employees. [11]
1961 Acquired Arthur Productions (Clydebank), Rookery Bridge Refining Co, Associated Metal Works (Glasgow), Graham and Wylie, Maurice Lipkin and Co, Bates Bros (Engineers), R. W. Haughton[12]
1962 Acquired Edmiston Brown, Clarmac Engineering, Veevers and Hensman, letterpress printers of Burnley, and W. E. Ginder, a small manufacturing jewellers[13]
1962 Acquired Polarcold, Tropical Packers (Cheshire and Brierly and Kershaw and its subsidiary Crawford Machinery[14]
1963 Stenhouse Holdings acquired a substantial interest in the company and appointed a new chairman[15]. Rights issue to reduce the company's overdraft.
1964 Acquired 6 Leicester hosiery and knitware companies[16]
1965 Acquired Marlowe (Upholstery) of Rutherglen, which would complement the furniture and timber companies in the group, Arthur Productions (Clydebank) and Graham and Wylie[17]; Gallagher Brothers (Wigan) and Riordan Engineering (Camberley)[18]
1965 John Wallace Group's subsidiary Polarcold took over the Fort Matilda, Greenock factory of Acme Domestic Equipment[19]
1970 Stenhouse Holdings acquired the rest of the shares in the company that it did not already own[20]
1971 The name of the Wallace subsidiary was changed to Stenhouse Industries and British Electrical Repairs Ltd was incorporated in it[21]. Veevers and Hensman was sold[22].
1972 British Electrical Repairs was sold[23]
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Scottish Agricultural Implement Makers
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th June 1894 p562
- ↑ The Times, Oct 23, 1911
- ↑ The Times, Aug 09, 1920
- ↑ The Times, Aug 09, 1920
- ↑ The Engineer 1920/08/13 p155
- ↑ A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1999. ISBN 1 873098 50 2
- ↑ The Times, Oct 30, 1961
- ↑ The Times, Jul 09, 1926
- ↑ The Times, Mar 29, 1946
- ↑ The Times, Aug 19, 1960
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Oct 30, 1961
- ↑ The Times, Mar 30, 1962
- ↑ The Times, Oct 29, 1962
- ↑ The Times, Mar 28, 1963
- ↑ The Times, Dec 18, 1964
- ↑ The Times, Apr 08, 1965
- ↑ The Times, May 19, 1965
- ↑ The Times, Aug 02, 1965
- ↑ The Times, Mar 10, 1970
- ↑ The Times, Mar 05, 1971
- ↑ The Times, Jun 10, 1971
- ↑ The Times, Dec 21, 1973