Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 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.
1969 John Thompson acquired the newly-merged shell boiler businesses of Cochran and Co and Ruston and Hornsby which would give John Thompson half of the UK market for industrial packaged boilers[1]; the Annan and Lincoln works were merged with the Thompson's shell boiler division, eventually forming Thompson Cochran[2].
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