Hall Engineering
of Shrewsbury
1820 Company founded.
1874 Public company.
c.1940 Presumably acquired Chatwoods Patent Safe and Lock Co
1956 Name changed. Hall Engineering Industries preference shares were offered to the public; the company owned Hall and Pickles, British Reinforced Concrete Engineering, Chatwood Safe and Engineering and Milners Safe Co[1]
1958 Hall Engineering Industries Ltd had subsidiaries including[2]
- Hall and Pickles
- British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co
- Chatwood-Milner
- Improved Metal Label Co
- Auto-Body Dies (formerly Composite Forgings)
- Webslight (formerly Harry Heath (General Advertisers)
1958 Name changed.
1961 General engineers manufacturing general and specialised machinery and test equipment, wind tunnels, launchers for guided weapons, nuclear research and power station equipment, steel fabrications, dies and fixtures for motor industry. 950 employees.
1969 Hall Engineering (Dies) acquired steel stockholders Monkhouse and Brown from F. H. Tomkins[3].