Aurora Holdings
Aurora Holdings
1974 Public company: Aurora Gear and Engineering Co was renamed Aurora Holdings[1]
1975 Agreed to sell steel stockholding operation of William Watts Steel Stockholding (of Nottingham) to private Barclay and Mathieson of Glasgow[2]
1975 Anderton-Forco Industries was a subsidiary[3]; also Pashley and Trickett.
1976 Acquired control of East Sussex Engineering Group[4]
1976 Acquired the fixed assets and stocks of G. L. Willan and G L Willan (Castings) of Rotherham from the receiver but not those of subsidiary Marsh Brothers[5]
1977 Acquired Coltness Group, maker of fasteners, by exchange of shares[6]
1978 Acquired Lerche Machine Tools
1978 Acquired Osborn Steel.[7]
1979 Acquired Edgar Allen Balfour.[8]
1979 Robert Atkinson was chairman and managing director of the company. [9]
1979 The Ashlow Engineering foundry was closed[10]
1980 Sold Darwins Magnets International to Preformations
1982 Company reported substantial losses; had closed 6 sites and sold 9 loss-making subsidiaries; the one single site steel works, in Manchester, would be operational by mid-year[11]
1988 Aurora of Sheffield acquired the steel and bronze foundry division of David Brown Gear Industries based at Penistone; the Edgar Allen Foundry at Meadowhall would be moved to Penistone; would supply castings to Truflo Valves, part of Westpark Group which had recently been acquired by Aurora[12]
1988 Aurora acquired NBSG
1988 Aurora was acquired by the Australian ANI
1989 48 per cent of ANI's ordinary issued share capital was acquired by Consolidated Press Securities Ltd of Australia.
1995 Renamed ANI Aurora plc
1999 Acquired by Firth Rixson, subsidiary of Smorgon Steel Group, an Australian company. Renamed Firth Rixson Aurora Ltd
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Wednesday, Nov 06, 1974
- ↑ The Times Jun 18, 1975
- ↑ The Times, Sep 30, 1975
- ↑ The Times, Mar 31, 1976
- ↑ The Times, Dec 08, 1976
- ↑ The Times Aug 06, 1977
- ↑ The Engineer 1979/06/28
- ↑ The Engineer 1979/09/13
- ↑ The Engineer 1979/06/28
- ↑ Competition Commission report on William Cook, 1990
- ↑ The Times, Apr 08, 1982
- ↑ The Times, May 04, 1988