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MEM Co
From Graces Guide
Midland Electric Manufacturing Co (MEM) of Reddings Lane, Tyseley, Birmingham, and of 25 Old Street, London, EC1 (1937)
1908 Company founded by Walter Leonard Barber at 108 Conybere Street to make electrical appliances.
Later moved to the Stafford Works, Barford Street, Birmingham.
1926 Public company.
1927 Started to manufacture motor control gear, to meet the increasing use of electric motors in industry
1936 Took over the former Rudge-Whitworth factory in Reddings Lane. They employed around 1,000 persons.
1937 Electric switchgear manufacturers.[1]
1961 Manufacturers of switch, fuse and motor control gear and high efficiency electric fires and convectors. 1,500 employees.
1961 Occupied a new factory at Holyhead, Anglesey, in response to labour shortage in Birmingham[2]
1965 Announced its first miniature circuit breaker range
1969 Another new factory was to be built at Washington New Town[3]
1971 Taken over by Delta Metal Co[4]
Delta's Electrical Division then consolidated several divisions of MEM (250V, 500V), as well as Bill Switchgear, under the MEM brand in 1998
2003 Electrical Division of Delta acquired by Eaton Corporation of USA, including the MEM, BILL and Holec brands
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ * 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ The Times, Feb 01, 1961
- ↑ The Times, Sep 08, 1969
- ↑ The Times, Oct 26, 1971
- Birmingham’s Industrial Heritage by Ray Shill. Published by Sutton Publishing 2002. ISBN 0-7509-2593-0
- [1] Eaton