John Thompson Horseley Bridge
of Wolverhampton
1968 John Thompson took over Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott which was merged with its Pressure Vessel Division to form Thompson Horseley[1].
1969 Vacancies at Tipton Works (Horseley road) and Dudley Works (Pear Tree-lane)[2]
1969 John Thompson Horseley Bridge Ltd., design, fabricate and erect all types of structural steelwork, rail and road bridges, swing and rolling lift bridges, sluice gates, buildings of ...[3]
1970 John Thompson Horseley Bridge Ltd., a division of the John Thompson Group.[4]. ... of Ettingshall, Wolverhampton.[5]
1990 Thompson Horseley Bridge was a business unit of NEI Thompson Limited, manufacturers of heavy structural steelwork and sectional water storage tanks[6]
1990 Thompson Defence Projects of Wolverhampton, a business unit of NEI Thompson Ltd, designs and manufactures mechanical defence systems including military bridging.[7]
1991 Thompson Horseley Bridge of Tipton won a contract to supply a 278 ft-long bridge as part of a new ring road around Bradford.[8]
1993 NEI plc was renamed Rolls-Royce Power Engineering plc.
1995 Vickers acquired Thompson Defence Projects from Rolls-Royce Power Engineering.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 18 April 1969
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 01 September 1969
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 08 October 1969
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 24 March 1970
- ↑ Shropshire Star 09 April 1970
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 09 August 1990
- ↑ Shropshire Star 20 September 1990
- ↑ Sandwell Evening Mail 25 April 1991