Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Enfield-Standard Power Cables

From Graces Guide

of Enfield, Middlesex, and Copperworks Road, Llanelli.

1959 Private company, jointly owned by Enfield Cables Ltd and Standard Telephones and Cables.

1961 Manufacturers of power cables. 1,350 employees.

1961 Subsidiary of Enfield Rolling Mills[1]

1961 Transfer of Mersey Cable Works from Tube Investments to the company[2]

1964 Standard Telephones and Cables exited from power cables and sold its 44 percent interest in the company to Enfield Rolling Mills[3]

1965 Delta Metal Co had acquired the outstanding shares in the company[4] With Enfield Rolling Mills, this and other subsidiaries formed the E.R.M. Division of Delta Group.

1969 Pirelli-General Cable Works and Enfield Standard would set up a joint company to rationalise production, under the stimulus of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, May 16, 1963
  2. The Times, April 21, 1961
  3. The Times, May 25, 1964
  4. The Times, Mar 18, 1965
  5. The Times, July 18, 1969