Engineering and Lighting Equipment Co
of Sphere Works, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.
1895 Company founded.
1920 April. Issued catalogue of fittings for half-watt and metal filament lamps.[1]
1939 Public company.
1961 Acquired Bell and Webster Industries[2]
1961 Manufacturers of "ELECO" electrical-street lighting equipment, fluorescent fittings, industrial lighting fittings, fuse boards and power panels, non-ferrous and light alloy castings, general and precision engineering, argonarc welding, plastic-phenolic, thermo-setting precision, mouldings, jigs, dies and tools for plastic mouldings. Specialists in complete street and industrial lighting layouts. 650 employees.[3]
1961 Name changed to Eleco Ltd
1965 Name changed to Eleco Holdings Ltd
1981 Eleco Holdings was re-registered as a plc.
1986 Eleco Holdings PLC owned a number of subsidiaries:[4]
- B and H (Warehousing and Distribution) Ltd
- Bell and Webster Ltd
- Davis Group Ltd
- Motor Transport (Welwyn) Ltd
- Topsy Foods Ltd
- Webster Properties Ltd
and a number of other subsidiaries that were inactive
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 30th April 1920 p438
- ↑ Companies house filing
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ 1986 Annual report