Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Gandy

From Graces Guide
1948.
1950.
October 1951.
1957.
October 1975.

of Wallasey

1873 Company founded.

1880 Private company.

1901 Company made public.

1901 Name changed to Gandy Belt Manufacturing Co Ltd.

1947 Name changed to Gandy Ltd.

1961 Manufacturers of medicine belting, including plastic coated conveyor belting; solid woven cotton belting, brake and clutch linings (automotive and industrial) in all forms, both woven and moulded;; fuel pump couplings; pedal pads. 418 employees.

1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Brake and clutch linings and other components.

1973 Acquired by Allied Polymer Group[1]

1977 Allied Polymer was acquired by BTR

1978 Armstrong Equipment acquired the friction materials business of Gandy, part of BTR[2].

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Jan 20, 1973
  2. The Times, Apr 18, 1978