Difference between revisions of "Camrex"
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c.1907 Company incorporated<ref>The Times, May 30, 1968</ref> | c.1907 Company incorporated<ref>The Times, May 30, 1968</ref> | ||
1936 Notice concerning the estate of the late Mr. ALEXANDER CAMERON, Deceased, late of "Wodencroft," Linden Road, Gosforth, in the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Managing Director of Alex. Cameron & Sons Ltd., of Camrex House, Sunderland, Paint and Grease Manufacturers and General Merchants.<ref>London Gazette 3 March 1936</ref> | |||
1959 Death of Percy Blumer Cameron, chairman and managing director of Camrex Paints<ref>The Times Feb 03, 1959</ref> | 1959 Death of Percy Blumer Cameron, chairman and managing director of Camrex Paints<ref>The Times Feb 03, 1959</ref> | ||
Revision as of 12:46, 26 May 2017
of Sunderland, maker of a range of marine and industrial paints.
Camrex - Non oxidising paint.
Camerine - Deep tank paint.
Camlac - Marine enamel paint.
Cameron's - Ships bottom compositions.
c.1907 Company incorporated[1]
1936 Notice concerning the estate of the late Mr. ALEXANDER CAMERON, Deceased, late of "Wodencroft," Linden Road, Gosforth, in the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Managing Director of Alex. Cameron & Sons Ltd., of Camrex House, Sunderland, Paint and Grease Manufacturers and General Merchants.[2]
1959 Death of Percy Blumer Cameron, chairman and managing director of Camrex Paints[3]
1966 Incorporation as public company Camrex (Holdings) Ltd, previously Alex Cameron and Sons[4]. Agreed to market specialised coatings developed by Rolls-Royce[5]
1980 As the climax to internal arguments, a former chairman tried to remove his successor.
1983 Hawley Group held 28.5 percent of the shares which it sold to Ruberoid Co which then acquired Camrex[6]
1985 Canadian Pacific brought a suit against Camrex over the treatment of 4 ships in 1979[7]. Ruberoid closed the British company but the subsidiary company in the Netherlands would continue to paint ships and might win contracts from British yards[8]