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D. S. Plugs

From Graces Guide
September 1953.
May 1957.

of Preston, Lancashire

or Ordsal Works, Salford (1954)

1940 Private company formed as Switchgear Units Ltd.

1946 Name changed.

1946 ".... Warrington, for the erection of a 27,500 square feet factory on the Salterbeck (Workington) estate, to house the activities of D. S. Plugs, Ltd., Salford, manufacturers of electrical accessories. ..."[1]

1954 Patents on "Improvements in and relating to pins of electric plug and socket connectors" and "Combined electrical switch and socket outlet" with Bruce Lusk Cooper and Jack Lund

c.1955 Presumably became part of Dorman Smith Holdings

1961 Manufacturing electrical engineers.[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Lancashire Evening Post 01 August 1946
  2. ↑ * 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
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