Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,240 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Aluminium Plant and Vessel Co

From Graces Guide
January 1920.
November 1926.

of Northfield House, Wandsworth Park, London, SW18

of Point Pleasant, Wandsworth

1910 Incorporation of a private company: Aluminium Plant and Vessel Co Ltd in Wandsworth, to apply a newly discovered method of welding aluminium[1]

1937 Welded aluminium tanks and equipment for aircraft, also castings.[2]

WWII Manufactured parts for the De Havilland Mosquito [3]

1946 Public company

1947 Acquired Paramount Alloys Ltd[4]

1948 Change of name to The A.P.V. Company Ltd

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Monday, Jul 03, 1950
  2. * 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  3. Mosquito by C. Martin Sharp and Michael J. F. Bowyer. Published by Crecy Books in 1995. ISBN 0-947554-41-6
  4. The Times Jul 03, 1950