Thompson Brothers (Bilston)
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of Bradley Engineering Works, Bilston, Birmingham
1810 Company founded[1].
1882 Purchased by Enoch Stephen Thompson[2].
1895 Advert
1896/7 Directory: Listed as makers of steam boilers
1896/7 Directory: Advertiser. More detail
1896/7 Directory: Listed as makers of iron boats.
1906 Incorporated as a private company[3].
1920-24 Made the 8/10 TB car. Around 750 produced.[4]
1937 Converted into a public company on 24 May [5]. The business had been under the management of Enoch Thompson and his sons, Frederick Stephen Thompson and Howard James Thompson (who were the current managing directors), for 55 years. The managing directors were said to be the 3rd generation in the business [6]. Business of engineering and steel plate fabrication. Very extensive business in steel tanks for road transport, stainless steel tanks and aircraft refuelling equipment. 67 acres of land at the works.
1937 Manufacturers of metal components, exhaust manifolds and petrol filling equipment.
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1959 John Thompson had taken over Thompson Brothers (Bilston) in the past year, a business in similar line (This company seems to have been set up by brothers of one of the early Thompsons in the John Thompson line, and the directors of the two companies were, during the first half the 20th century, cousins). Thompson Brothers (Bilston) had previously absorbed Darham Industries (London) Ltd[7].
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 29 November 1937
- ↑ The Times, 29 November 1937
- ↑ The Times, 29 November 1937
- ↑ * A-Z of Cars of the 1920s by Nick Baldwin. 1994. ISBN 1 870979 53 2
- ↑ The Times, 29 November 1937
- ↑ The Times, 29 November 1937
- ↑ The Times, 22 July 1959
- Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham, 1896-97: Boilers - Steam
- Post Office London Directory, 1895
- Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham, 1896-97: Advertisers
- Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham, 1896-97: Iron Boats
- 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- AA. [1] Image courtesy of Aviation Ancestry
