Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,128 pages of information and 250,321 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.

Alumasc

From Graces Guide
1983.

Alumasc Ltd. of Burton Latimer, near Kettering, Northants., low pressure die casting of aluminium

1945 Company incorporated

1956 A majority share in the company was acquired by H. E. Proprietary and later owned by Consolidated Gold Fields

1962 Acquired Non-Ferrous Die Casting Co, and Brass Pressings (London) Ltd.[1]

1984 Alumasc Group was formed as a management buyout of 2 business from Consolidated Gold Fields, Alumasc and Ingersoll.[2]

By 1986 was involved in a diverse range of products from aluminium beer kegs, through aluminium building products to Ingersoll locks. The company went public.

2010 Refocussed on building products

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times Aug. 8, 1962
  2. ↑ The Times May 16, 1986