Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto
From Graces Guide
Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum.
Nameplate at Geevor Mine
Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum. Slip Ring Induction Motor.
Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum.
Machine displayed at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MoSI)
of Trafford Park, Manchester, and Willesden. Factory located at the eastern end of Trafford Park Road, opposite the junction with Warwick Road North.
Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum.
- 1899 Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co founded.
- 1932/3 Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co amalgamated with Crypto Electrical Co, forming Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto[1].
- 1951 Private company - subsidiary of newly formed Lancashire Dynamo Holdings Ltd[2]
- 1956 The principal subsidiary of Lancashire Dynamo Holdings. Others were Foster Transformers Ltd, Nevelin Electric Co, Crypto Ltd, Crypton Equipment Ltd, Lancashire Dynamo Electronic Products Ltd, Dynamo and Motor Repairs Ltd[3].
- 1956 A new subsidiary, Lancashire Dynamo Nevelin, was formed to incorporate Nevelin Electric Co, maker of rectifiers of Croydon, and Lancashire Dynamo Switchgear (of Bridgwater) at a new site at Oxted, Surrey[4].
- 1956 Lancashire Dynamo Holdings acquired J. G. Statter and Co[5].
- 1960 Metal Industries acquired Lancashire Dynamo Holdings Ltd to provide automation capability which would be complementary to its existing businesses[6].
- 1961 Electrical engineers, manufacturing a wide range of electrical products.
- 1967 Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto Ltd was acquired by AEI[7].
- 1967 Taken over by GEC and closed down[8]
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