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 173,093 pages of information and 249,768 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.

Andrews-Weatherfoil

From Graces Guide

1963 Merger of Weatherfoil and Andrew Air Conditioning, both subsidiaries of Powell Duffryn[1]

1966 Acquired half of the new French company established by Brockhouse Steel Structures to exploit the C.L.A.S.P. industrialised building system[2]

1968 The activities of H. J. Cash, a subsidiary of John Laing and Son, were transferred to the company[3]

1969 Started a major development of low temperature air conditioning for the food processing industry in anticipation of the effects of changes in government regulations[4]

1988 Still part of Powell Duffryn

1997 Acquired by Kvaerner Rashleigh Phipps; the name of the combination was changed to Kvaerner Rashleigh Weatherfoil, specialist mechanical and electrical engineers[5]

2000 Skanska Construction Group acquired Kvaerner's construction businesses.



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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Jan 04, 1963
  2. The Times, Sep 09, 1966
  3. The Times, Oct 04, 1968
  4. The Times, Nov 04, 1969
  5. Woking Informer 08 August 1997