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Fireproof Tanks

From Graces Guide
January 1952.

of Portsmouth

1939 Private company.

1954 Fireproof Tanks, Ltd. Manufacturers of flexible fuel tanks; self-sealing crash-proof covering of rigid and flexible fuel tanks: fuel resistant rubber mouldings. Lightweight flame-proof protection for aluminium fuel and oil tanks to comply with current regulations. Directors: G. Wigham-Richardson (Chairman), J. Bellezanne (France); R. R. G. Gallichan, D.S.C. Senior Executive: W. F. Locke {General Manager). Head Office: Armadores House, Bury Street, London, E.C.3. T.: Avenue 5250. Works: The Airport, Portsmouth. T.: Portsmouth 70836-7-8.[1]

1961 Manufacturers of aircraft flexible fuel tanks, rubber mouldings, pontoons and collapsible containers. 500 employees. [2]

WWII Manufactured parts for the De Havilland Mosquito

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  2. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  • Mosquito by C. Martin Sharp and Michael J. F. Bowyer. Published by Crecy Books in 1995. ISBN 0-947554-41-6
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