Concrete
of Leeds, reinforced concrete and mass concrete engineers.
of Hounslow (1974)
1919 Public company incorporated[1]
1939 Managing Director John Goldwell Ambrose
1955 36th AGM. Maker of Bison precast concrete floors[2]
1962 Announced Bison system of construction of high rise flats using concrete panels[3]
1963 CONCRETE LIMITED ('BISON' Structural Precast Concrete). GROUP RESULTS: 5958 Contracts Completed in 1962. 6,076 Contracts Completed in 1963[4]
1963 Acquired Concrete Development Co from Holland and Hannen and Cubitts[5]
1965 Appointed sub-contractors for industrialised building in construction of the University of Surrey[6]
1965 The company claimed to have built 2,200 dwellings using the Bison Wall Frame system, many more than most of the competing industrialised building systems[7]
1966 Concrete Ltd, one of the Bison Group of companies, is putting up the concrete framework for the first part of the scheme in the Brewery Street and Albion Street areas...[8]
1969 Acquired Banister, Walton and Co Ltd[9]
1970 Concrete tried to counteract the negative attitude towards system building following the collapse of the Ronan Point flats - released test data which showed the Bison system would be satisfactory provided the walls were properly tied into the structure[10]
1976 Concrete Ltd of Leeds acquired Dowsett Engineering Construction and subsequently Dowsett Piling and Foundations[11]
1977 Concrete was acquired by National Chemical Industries of Saudi Arabia. Name changed to Bison Group. [12]
1978 Sold Dowsett Piling and Foundations to WGI Group[13]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Jul 19, 1955
- ↑ The Times, Jul 19, 1955
- ↑ The Times, Jul 06, 1962
- ↑ The Scotsman 09 July 1963
- ↑ The Times, Oct 04, 1963
- ↑ The Times Mar 16, 1965
- ↑ The Times Mar 19, 1965
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 06 September 1966
- ↑ The Times, Nov 19, 1969
- ↑ The Times, Mar 13, 1970
- ↑ The Times, Dec 16, 1976
- ↑ The Times, Oct 26, 1977
- ↑ The Times Nov 25, 1978
- Companies house filings