B. Elliott and Co
B. Elliott and Co Ltd. of Victoria Road, Willesden London, N.W.10.
1904 Company founded.
1921 Became private company.
1946 Became public company.
1961 Manufacturers of "Victoria" milling and grinding machines and equipment, "Alba" and "Invicta" shaping machines, "Cardiff" lathes, "Velox" hacksaws. "Milford" grinders, "Progress" drills, "Samson" and "Speedax" metal working machines and "Selecta" portable grinders and home workshop equipment. Also important machine tools and engineering equipment. 1,000 employees. [4]
1962 'ELLIOTT LATHES LTD., one of the B Elliott tool companies have built a new £50,000 extension to their works at Taff’s Well near Cardiff. The capacity the fettling department has been doubled and it now possible machine lathe beds in batches of 100 to 150. Commenting on this development Mr E W Keheher, director in charge of the B Elliot Machinery Group, said that it would help meet the tremendous demand for the Omnispeed range of lathes introduced last Christmas. Total production had doubled in the last five months and more than 80 per cent of output is now exported to North America and Common Market countries.
MORE POWERFUL - The latest addition to the Elliot range of high-speed lathes, the Omniturn introduced to complement the Omnispeed model in this National Productivity year - is being shown to buyers for the first time at the Elliot Machine Tool Exhibition in London. The Omniturn is a faster, more powerful quick loading copying machine designed to enable semi-skilled operators to produce consistenly accurate parts more economically than any skilled operator working a standard lathe. It is available with spindle speeds of to 4000 rpm to meet the super finishing high production requirements of industry at home and overseas. The Omniturn is also manufactured by Elliot Lathes Ltd.'[5]
1962 Acquired Modern Machine Tools.[6]
1966 Subsidiaries included:
- B. Elliott (Machinery)
- Elgar Machine Tool Co
- Press and Shear Machinery Co
- Snow and Co
- Modern Machine Tool Co Ltd which was transferred from Coventry to Birmingham in the year
- P. M. T. (Machine Tools)
Aiming to grow to become comparable in size with other machine tool groups, acquired several other companies - G. W. S. Burdett and Co, Willson Machine Tools (Halifax), Butler Machine Tool Co and 51 percent of a South African Company, as well as a Canadian company[7] Bid for S. Russell[8]
1967 D. Mitchell and Co, lathe makers, was a subsidiary. Acquired an interest in Goldfields Industrial Corporation[9]
1977 In order to expand in areas of high technology, acquired Newall Machine Tools[10]
1984 B. Elliot Group included machine tool makers:
1989 Acquired MTE, Philidas, Integrated Photomatrix, and Printed Motors from Williams Holdings[11]
1989 Acquired Insley (London), a distributor of carbide tools, from Meggitt[12]
See Also
- Further Reading: http://www.lathes.co.uk/elliott/
Sources of Information
- ↑ Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia. Volume VIII. Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1955
- ↑ Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia. Volume VIII. Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1955
- ↑ Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia. Volume VIII. Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1955
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Pontypridd Observer - Saturday 22 December 1962
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post - 04 April 1962
- ↑ The Times, Sep 29, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Dec 17, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Sep 15, 1967
- ↑ The Times, May 05, 1977
- ↑ The Times, April 19, 1989
- ↑ The Times, June 08, 1989