Cornercroft
Cornercroft Ltd., of Ace Works, Coventry, maker of Motor and Aircraft accessories, metal spinners, founders and engineers
1919 Business founded by Norman Rycroft and John Alan Corner
1936 Public company incorporated to acquire the business carried on by Cornercroft Ltd; Rycroft and Corner were joint MDs. The company's products were well known in the motor industry under the ACE brand.[1]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1939 Acquired Northern Aircraft and Engineering Products.[2]
WWII Manufactured parts for the De Havilland Mosquito
1946 Cornercroft (Plastics) was a subsidiary.
1949 Acquired James Beresford and Son.[3]
1954 Cornercroft, Ltd. Manufacturers of jigs, press tools, special process machines, gauges, assembly fixtures, components and special equipment for the aircraft industry. Directors: J. A. Corner {Chairman and Managing) ; N. Rycroft (Technical); H. Wylie; S. A. Smith. Senior Executive: W. J. Burslem {Secretary). Head Office and Works: Ace Works, Queen Victoria Road, Coventry. T.: Coventry 64123, 5966, 60580. T^A.: Discs, Coventry. London Office: 32, Clarges Street, Piccadilly, W.1. T.: Grosvenor 1646.[4]
1961 Manufacturers of "Ace" motor accessories, "Beresford" water pumps and rail carriage equipment, jigs, tools, gauges and assembly fixtures, specialised machine tools and equipment, metal spinning, press tools and presswork, dies tools for plastic industry and thermo-setting and thermo-plastic mouldings. 750 employees. [5]
1963 The Motor Accessories Division seems to have put incorporated as Cornercroft Engineering
1972 The group had been affected by Rolls-Royce's RB-211 problems; the Beresford Pumps division had increased its range of pumps; the agricultural division had benefited from the collapse of a competitor (Spiraflite).[6]
1978 Armstrong Equipment acquired Cornercroft of Coventry, light engineers in automotive and aeronautical engineering[7]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times June 25, 1936
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Gazette - 17 January 1939
- ↑ Coventry Evening Telegraph - 9 December 1949
- ↑ 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times Mar. 8, 1972
- ↑ The Times, Jul 07, 1978
- Mosquito by C. Martin Sharp and Michael J. F. Bowyer. Published by Crecy Books in 1995. ISBN 0-947554-41-6