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 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Bovis

From Graces Guide
March 1989.
June 1989.

Builders, of London

1908 Company founded by Sydney Glyn as a small builder and decorator in St Marylebone, London

c.1928 Public company

WWII Bovis Public Works Ltd was formed to carry out work unsuited to the "Bovis System".[1]

1946 Bovis Public Works Ltd was renamed Gilbert-Ash Ltd[2]

1949 Private company. Incorporation of Bovis Holdings Ltd.

1959 Main subsidiaries of Bovis Holdings Ltd included Bovis Ltd, Gilbert-Ash Ltd, Leslie and Co Ltd, Yeoman and Partners Ltd, Audley Properties Ltd, Compactom Ltd and Constructional Units Ltd

1961 Building and constructional contractors, specialising in industrial buildings, factories, stores and processing plant. [3]

1996 The company had won the fourth largest amount of Lottery-funded construction work[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times June 7, 1946
  2. The Times June 7, 1946
  3. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  4. The Times May 28, 1996
  • The Times, Jun 03, 1959