of Coalville, Leics
1862 Company established by John W. Stableford
1878 Purchased by William Stableford, formerly managing director of the Oldbury Railway Carriage Co.
1900 Incorporated as a limited company.
1914 Railway carriage and wagon builders, manufacturers of railway plant of all descriptions, engineers and contractors, manufacturers of railway rolling stock for home, colonial and foreign railways. Employees 900 to 1,200. [1]