Albion Light Metal Products
of 146 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland; and Park Lane Works, Dundee
1946 Albion Light Metal Products Limited was incorporated, with capital of £3,000, to carry on business as engineers, iron, steel, and other metal or alloy founders.[1]
1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Aluminium Kitchen Cabinets, Aluminium Cupboards, Electric Domestic Refrigerators, Anodizing Plant. (Earls Court, 1st Floor, Stand No. 707) [2]
1947 'The refrigerators, made by Albion Light Metal Products, are bound for Belfast and Dublin. It is the first big consignment sent out in this way. Presently located at Park Lane Works, Dundee, the firm have expanded rapidly since they started operations 18 months ago with five employees. They now have over 200 employees, and are moving by degrees to a 40,000 square feet factory in Dundee's Industrial Estate. They started making kitchen cabinets, and, only six months ago, turned also to refrigerators. Now they turn out 200 refrigerators week and 130 cabinets, about two-thirds of which go to England and the rest remain for Scottish homes....The refrigerators are manufactured under the name of associated company, Astral Equipment Ltd.'[3]
1956 The company went into voluntary liquidation in March.[4]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Scotsman 5 January 1946
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair p8
- ↑ Dundee Courier - Friday 21 November 1947
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/17381/page/191