Difference between revisions of "Vidor"
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* 1966 Contract to supply batteries to the USA<ref>The Times, 18 April 1966</ref>. Contract to supply factory to Bulgaria<ref>The Times, 24 October 1966</ref>. | * 1966 Contract to supply batteries to the USA<ref>The Times, 18 April 1966</ref>. Contract to supply factory to Bulgaria<ref>The Times, 24 October 1966</ref>. | ||
* 1967 Receiver appointed to [[Royston Industries]] after losses<ref>The Times, 8 December 1967</ref>. | |||
* 1968 [[Crompton Parkinson]] purchased the [[Vidor]] and '''Burndept''' (installer of battery making factory) subsidiaries of [[Royston Industries]]<ref>The Times, 13 February 1968</ref>. | * 1968 [[Crompton Parkinson]] purchased the [[Vidor]] and '''Burndept''' (installer of battery making factory) subsidiaries of [[Royston Industries]]<ref>The Times, 13 February 1968</ref>. |
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Battery and / or radio manufacturer
of Dundee and South Shields (1965)
- WW1: production was concentrated on the war effort including torches, torch batteries, searchlights and sirens.
- Post WW1: Vidor was in a poor financial state.
- 1925 Ever Ready, interested in the works, purchased the company. The works went on to employ nearly 3000 people and produced large numbers of dry batteries and radio receivers.
- Sometime after 1928 T. N. Cole, managing director of Lissen, left that company which had been taken over by Ever-Ready and set up the Vidor battery company, in direct competition with Lissen/Ever-Ready.
- 1962 Mention of Vidor, which had been taken-over using large borrowings from bank, at Royston Industries AGM[2].
- 1963 Royston Industries reorganized its Vidor battery company[3].
- 1963 Started exporting battery manufacturing plant
- 1965 Large contract from India, the 6th for battery manufacturing plant in the past 2 years[4].
- 1965 Contract signed with ITT to supply battery manufacturing plant for a chain of factories around the world; the project would be handled by STC[5].
- 1967 Receiver appointed to Royston Industries after losses[8].
- 1968 Crompton Parkinson purchased the Vidor and Burndept (installer of battery making factory) subsidiaries of Royston Industries[9].