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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Langley Alloys

From Graces Guide
1950. From British Motor Cars 1950/51.

of Langley, Slough.

c.1938 Arthur Albert Rowse founded the company to make a new type of bronze alloy which found extensive use in torpedoes and other naval equipment

1961 Acquired by the General Hydraulic Power Co.[1]

1974 Developed valves that could test the effects of liquid natural gas and other low temperature gases on the design and performance of cryogenic valves.[2]

1977 GHP was acquired by Low and Bonar

1982 Under the Lazard scheme to reduce capacity in castings, the Bonar Langley Alloys foundry was closed[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, May 8, 1961
  2. The Engineer 1974/06/27
  3. Competition Commission report on William Cook, 1990