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 Royston Industries acquired Vidor[2].
- 1962 Mention of Vidor, which had been taken-over using large borrowings from bank, at Royston Industries AGM[3].
- 1963 Royston Industries reorganized its Vidor battery company[4].
- 1963 Started exporting battery manufacturing plant
- 1965 Large contract from India, the 6th for battery manufacturing plant in the past 2 years[5].
- 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[6].
- 1967 Receiver appointed to Royston Industries after losses[9].
- 1968 Crompton Parkinson purchased the Vidor and Burndept (installer of battery making factory) subsidiaries of Royston Industries[10].
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