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Electrical and Industrial Securities
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1899 Company incorporated as English Velvet and Cord Dyers Association
1957 Michael Lewis and friends acquired the company[1]
1957 Acquired retail tailors Kilgour, French and Stanbury[2]
1957 On change of control, the company expanded into industrial activities and changed its name to E. V. Industrials[3]
1957 Acquired Farrar Boilerworks of Newark[4] and Kontak Manufacturing Co, precision engineers in the fields of jet engines and nuclear power[5]
1959 Acquired S. E. Opperman[6]
1959 Acquired H. and C. Davis and Co and Westminster Construction from Henry Briggs who later joined the board. The Fraud Squad was investigating dealings in the shares[7]
1963 EV Industrials subsidiaries were:
- English Velvets
- Joseph Clare
- Congleton Cutters
- Greenhill Velvets and Silks
- H. and C. Davis and Co
- Farrar Boilerworks
- W. J. Furse and Co (Manchester)
- W. J. Furse and Co (Nottingham)
- Kontak Manufacturing Co
- Westminster Construction Co
1965 Disposed of Westminster Construction Co, and H. and C. Davis and Co Ltd; owned English Velvets Ltd (Greenhill Mill), the Furse companies, Kontak Manufacturing Co[8]
1966 Name was changed to Electrical and Industrial Securities[9]
1966 The W. J. Furse group was transferred to Crown House Engineering in exchange for shares in Crown House Engineering[10]. Acquired London and Provincial Laundries, which had the same chairman[11]
1968 The "Washeteria firm"[12]
1968 Acquired Hick, Hargreaves and Co despite questions about the degree of fit.
1969 Also owned Foster, Yates and Thom and Automations International (U.K.); planned to dispose of English Velvets[13]
1978 Acquired aircraft pump subsidiary of Weir Group, C. F. Taylor, which strengthened its aircraft components activities[14]
1980 Purchased Premier Precision Ltd (Bracknell) and the Horstman Defence Systems Ltd (Bath) from Lucas [15][16]
1981 Name changed to EIS Group
1982 Acquired Rubery Owen Hydraulics, which became part of Kontak Manufacturing[17]
1989 Sold Kontak Hydraulics to Commercial Hydraulics of Bedford[18]
1995 Acquired Aerostructures Hamble Holdings at a much lower valuation than when that company had been spun out of British Aerospace (BAe) in 1990[19]
1998 Acquired by TI Group which was interested because of EIS's fluid handling and aerospace-related businesses.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Jun 27, 1957
- ↑ The Times, Sep 27, 1957
- ↑ The Times, Nov 20, 1959
- ↑ The Times, Dec 05, 1957
- ↑ The Times, Dec 31, 1957
- ↑ The Times, Jun 16, 1959
- ↑ The Times (London, England), Saturday, Nov 21, 1959
- ↑ The Times, May 20, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Mar 13, 1968
- ↑ The Times, Nov 04, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Dec 06, 1966
- ↑ The Times, Jul 09, 1968
- ↑ The Times, Sep 30, 1969
- ↑ The Times, Jan 12, 1978
- ↑ The Times, Nov 29, 1980
- ↑ The Times, Jun 10, 1981
- ↑ The Times, Jan 28, 1982
- ↑ The Times September 09, 1989
- ↑ The Times, September 29, 1995
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