Coventry Gauge and Tool Co
Coventry Gauge and Tool Co of Coventry.
1913 Company founded as Walter Tatlow Ltd by Walter Tatlow
1915 Walter Tatlow's brother in law, Harry Harley, joined the company and took over its management.
1916 December 1st: Company became Coventry Gauge and Small Tool Co Ltd.
1919 Coventry Gauge and Small Tool Co Ltd. advertised a secondhand car for sale[1]
1920 The company was known as Coventry Gauge and Tool Co (see advert). H. H. Harley was managing director.
1920 One of the best plants for the manufacture of gauging equipment.[2]
1928 Public company formed to acquire the company of similar name. The company's manufacturing interests included:[3]
- Sole manufacturing rights to manufacture the Wickman patent gauges, which had been developed by the company
- Sole manufacturing and selling rights for Distant Recording and Controlling Apparatus
- Manufacture of the Lansing Electric Trucks
- Manufacture of precision and other tools and special machinery equipment for aircraft, motor car, gramophone and other industries
A new department had been set up to manufacture the new product, Lansing Electric Trucks; the Lansing Equipment Co was listed as one of 1000 customers of the company.
1936 A decision was made to build a new factory in Coventry and the foundation stone of the Fletchamstead Highway factory was laid, making Internal and External thread grinding machines.
1937 Precision gauges, jigs, fixtures and tool manufacturers. "Matrix" Jigs and Tools.[4]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1961 Manufacturers of jigs, gauges and precision tool equipment, including thread grinding machines and milling machines, and recording instruments. 2,000 employees.[5]
1967 Sold the interest in Humphris and Sons to Redman Tool Holdings[6]
1969 World leader in thread-grinding and agent for Rockwell Machine Tool Co.
1969 Acquired by Tube Investments to join its other machine tool companies[7] Around this time the name changed to TI Matrix
1974 Part of Tube Investments' newly constituted Machine Division.[8] was the machine tool group which included: Charles Churchill, Matrix Machine Tools, Matrix Engineering, Newcast Foundries, Matrix-Churchill International and Matrix-Churchill Corporation of USA; Walter T. Lees was appointed managing director of this group[9]
2004 The company changed its name to Matrix Machine Tool (Coventry) Ltd.