Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto
of Trafford Park, Manchester, and Willesden. Factory located at the eastern end of Trafford Park Road, opposite the junction with Warwick Road North.
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].
1936 Subsidiary company formed: Crypton Equipment Ltd to deal with the company's battery charging, cinema and rectifier business[2].
1951 Private company - subsidiary of newly formed Lancashire Dynamo Holdings Ltd[3]
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[4].
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[5].
1956 Lancashire Dynamo Holdings acquired J. G. Statter and Co[6].
1960 Metal Industries acquired Lancashire Dynamo Holdings Ltd to provide automation capability which would be complementary to its existing businesses[7].
1961 Electrical engineers, manufacturing a wide range of electrical products. [8]
1967 Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto Ltd was acquired by AEI[9].
1967 Taken over by GEC and closed down[10]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 14 March 1933
- ↑ The Times, 21 February 1936
- ↑ The Times, 28 February 1951
- ↑ The Times, 6 June 1956
- ↑ The Times, 1 October 1956
- ↑ The Times, 11 June 1959
- ↑ The Times, 16 August 1960
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, 15 September 1967
- ↑ 'Trafford Park - The First Hundred Years' by Robert Nicholls. Phillimore & Co Ltd., 1996