Chronology of this group:
- 1882-1897 Joseph Lucas and Son
- 1897-1951 Joseph Lucas Ltd
- 1951-1975 Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd
- 1975-1996 Lucas Industries Ltd
- 1996-1999 Lucas Varity plc
1975 Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd changed its name to Lucas Industries; a campaign began to rebrand the subsidiary businesses as Lucas[1]
1975 Lucas's Simms Motor and Electronics Corporation subsidiary sold Horstman Camshafts to Weyburn Engineering[2]
1980 Sold Premier Precision Ltd (Bracknell) and Horstman Defence Systems Ltd (Bath) to Electrical and Industrial Securities [3][4]
1981 Chloride and Lucas form a joint venture reinforced with substantial government funds. The company was called Lucas Chloride EV Systems.[5]
1982 Due to a plummeting demand in America for Lucas CAV's Microjector, its US Greenville plant shut down completely for 10 weeks putting 240 production and support workers out of work.[6]
1983 Smiths Industries formed a joint venture with Lucas on vehicle control systems which was called Lucas Electrical Electronics and Systems, bringing together 5 plants from each partner [7]; Smiths would own about 20 percent of the venture[8].
Lucas Divisions included:
- Lucas Aerospace.
- Lucas BP Solar Systems.
- Lucas Chloride EV Systems.
- Lucas Electrical Electronics and Systems.
- Lucas Energy Systems.
- Lucas Fluid Power.
- Lucas Girling.
- Lucas Kienzle Instruments.
- Lucas Logic
1996 Lucas Industries and the Varity Corporation of America merged to become LucasVarity plc[9]. Note: The first part of the Varity name is from the founder's initials - Victor. A. Rice
1999 LucasVarity was acquired by TRW, an American company.