Coventry Gauge and Tool Co
Coventry Gauge and Tool Co of Coventry.
1913 Company founded as Walter Tatlow Ltd by Walter Tatlow
1915 Walter Tatlow's brother in law, Harry Harley, joined the company and took over its management.
1916 December 1st: Company renamed Coventry Gauge and Small Tool Co Ltd.
1919 Coventry Gauge and Small Tool Co Ltd. advertised a secondhand car for sale[1]
1920 The company was known as Coventry Gauge and Tool Co (see advert). H. H. Harley was managing director.
1920 One of the best plants for the manufacture of gauging equipment.[2]
1921 Description and illustrations of 'Capstan' brand dial indicators made by the Coventry Gauge and Tool Co [3]
1928 Public company formed to acquire the company of similar name. The company's manufacturing interests included:[4]
- Sole manufacturing rights to manufacture the Wickman patent gauges, which had been developed by the company
- Sole manufacturing and selling rights for Distant Recording and Controlling Apparatus
- Manufacture of the Lansing Electric Trucks
- Manufacture of precision and other tools and special machinery equipment for aircraft, motor car, gramophone and other industries
A new department had been set up to manufacture the new product, Lansing Electric Trucks; the Lansing Equipment Co was listed as one of 1000 customers of the company.
1936 A decision was made to build a new factory in Coventry and the foundation stone of the Fletchamstead Highway factory was laid, making Internal and External thread grinding machines.
1937 Precision gauges, jigs, fixtures and tool manufacturers. "Matrix" Jigs and Tools.[5]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1939 "opening of the Brechin branch of the Coventry Gauge & Tool Company"[6]
WWII: 105 of the Brechin employees of Coventry Gauge & Tool Company were in the services during the war. Six were killed on active service and one was accidentally killed.[7]
1945 Several British companies involved in precision instruments (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co, Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, and E. R. Watts and Son) agreed to pool their development and manufacturing resources but would continue separately to sell and service their equipment[8]
1948 "... Tool Company" which at their stand, No. 111, will have a display of Matrix Special Purpose Machine Tools. Two entirely new machine tools will be of special interest to the engineering industry - . One is a gear grinder and the other a jig borer .."[9]
1954 Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd. Fletchamstead, Coventry. T.: Coventry 5521. T.A.: “Gauges Coventry.” Thread grinders and special machine tools. Gauges, measuring instruments, jigs, fixtures, broaches, hobs, etc.[10]
1961 Manufacturers of jigs, gauges and precision tool equipment, including thread grinding machines and milling machines, and recording instruments. 2,000 employees.[11]
1967 Sold the interest in Humphris and Sons to Redman Tool Holdings[12]
1969 World leader in thread-grinding and agent for Rockwell Machine Tool Co.
1969 Acquired by Tube Investments to join its other machine tool companies[13] Around this time the name changed to TI Matrix. "Sir Stanley Harley says the company has been assured by T.I. that the terms and conditions of service of all staff and employees would be respected. The merger would provide improved facilities for research into and development ...[14]
1969 Coventry Gauge & Tool Co. Ltd. (Engineering Division), Brechin, TUBE INVESTMENTS, LTD., an advanced engineering group manufacturers of the famous mechanical matrix hydraulic ... pneumatic electro-magnetic clutches, Thomson Surface ...[15]
1970 COVENTRY GAUGE & TOOL COMPANY LIMITED, General Engineering Division, Brechin Angus Scotland[16]
1971 Coventry Gauge and Tool Company, part of the machine tool division of Tube Investments, shortened their name to Coventry Gauge Ltd.[17]
1971 Coventry Gauge & Tool Co. Ltd. (Engineering Division) will now be known as Matrix Engineering Ltd. Other Coventry Gauge & Tool Company operations remain unchanged.[18]
1974 Part of Tube Investments' newly constituted Machine Division.[19] was the machine tool group which included: Charles Churchill, Matrix Machine Tools, Matrix Engineering, Newcast Foundries, Matrix-Churchill International and Matrix-Churchill Corporation of USA; Walter T. Lees was appointed managing director of this group[20]
1986 TI Coventry Gauge Ltd, a company with factories in Poole and Leicester making threading gauges and measuring equipment, was merged with TI Robertson becoming TI Robertson Coventry Gauge Ltd.[21]
2004 The company changed its name to Matrix Machine Tool (Coventry) Ltd.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Jul 18, 1919
- ↑ The Engineer 1920/09/24 p311
- ↑ Engineering 1921/03/18
- ↑ The Times Oct 31, 1928
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 12 September 1939
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 28 January 1947
- ↑ The Times Sept. 20, 1945
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 24 August 1948
- ↑ 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times Jul 18, 1967
- ↑ The Times, May 13, 1969
- ↑ Coventry Evening Telegraph 03 June 1969
- ↑ Aberdeen Press and Journal 12 December 1969
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 16 July 1970
- ↑ Coventry Evening Telegraph 07 July 1971
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 07 October 1971
- ↑ The Engineer 1974/05/02
- ↑ The Times Sept. 12, 1974
- ↑ Bedfordshire Times and Independent 01 May 1986