of Elsinore Road, Old Trafford, Manchester.
of Victoria Works, Springfield Lane, Salford. (1914)
1911 Private company. Incorporated to combine the Switchgear Co. Ltd. and Cowans Ltd.
1914 Manufacturing electrical engineers. Specialities; electrical controlling gear for public electricity supply works, battleships, dockyards etc. Employees 200 to 300. [1]
1936 Company made public. Messrs Sermon and Waller, founding managing directors of the company, sold their shares to W. H. Botsford and Co[2]. The new managing director was J. E. Chamberlain who had worked for 15 years for Hewittic Electric Co.
1960 Combined Electrical Manufacturers Ltd formed as a public company to amalgamate Hackbridge and Hewittic Electric Co Ltd and Switchgear and Cowans Ltd[3].
1961 Electrical engineers specialising in high and low voltage switchgear and mining switchgear. 1,200 employees. [4]
1964 Part of Combined Electrical Manufacturers Ltd[5].
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Times 28 April 1936
- ↑ The Times, 1 September 1961
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, 7 August 1964