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 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 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.

Charterhouse Group

From Graces Guide

1966 With Linpac Containers acquired 35 percent of a Spanish maker of corrugated board[1]

1966 Through its subsidiary, Newage Engineers Ltd, acquired P. R. Motors

1982 Led a consortium which acquired 90 percent of Coloroll[2]

1982 Leader of a consortium which acquired a large part of the shareholding of F. W. Woolworth and Co; there was no property companies or retail groups in the consortium; it announced it had no intention of asset stripping.[3]

1984 Management buyout of 9 industrial companies, including Coloroll and Newage Transmissions, from Charterhouse Group; the companies were put together in a new company called Paragon[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Aug. 1, 1966
  2. The Times, Apr 14, 1982
  3. The Times, Oct 01, 1982
  4. The Times, Nov 22, 1984