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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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, 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 Brass Pressings (London) Ltd[1]

Acquired Non-Ferrous Die Casting Co

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