Matrix Engineering
of East Mill Works, Brechin, Angus
1939 "opening of the Brechin branch of the Coventry Gauge & Tool Company"[1]
WWII: 105 of the Brechin employees of Coventry Gauge & Tool Company were in the services during the war. Six were killed on active service and one was accidentally killed.[2]
1948 "... Tool Company" which at their stand, No. 111, will have a display of Matrix Special Purpose Machine Tools. Two entirely new machine tools will be of special interest to the engineering industry - . One is a gear grinder and the other a jig borer .."[3]
1961 The name of Gauge Control Products Ltd was changed to Matrix Engineering Ltd
1969 Acquired by Tube Investments
1969 Coventry Gauge & Tool Co. Ltd. (Engineering Division), Brechin, TUBE INVESTMENTS, LTD., an advanced engineering group manufacturers of the famous mechanical matrix hydraulic ... pneumatic electro-magnetic clutches, Thomson Surface ...[4]
1971 Coventry Gauge & Tool Co. Ltd. (Engineering Division) will now be known as Matrix Engineering Ltd. Other Coventry Gauge & Tool Company operations remain unchanged.[5]
1972 Employees of Matrix Engineering, Ltd. T.I. Machine Tool Division’s Scottish factory at Brechin presented Sir Stanley J. Harley, former chairman and managing director with a Silver Salmon.[6]
1972 "Horton clutch pulleys are now made by Matrix Engineering Ltd, of Brechin, and are readily available to European manufacturers of paper converting machinery."[7]
1972 Matrix Engineering, Ltd., Brechin, have secured an order for a further eight printing machines for Chromax, Ltd., Watford, worth £75,000. The Brechin firm built four of these machines, which ...[8]
1974 Became part of Tube Investments' newly constituted Machine Division.[9]
1979 Name changed to TI Matrix Engineering Ltd
1982 the registered office was at Brechin in Angus
1996 TI Matrix Engineering was one of 3 small subsidiary companies sold to Hay Hall Group[10]
1996 Matrix Engineering, part of Hay Hall Group, designed and manufactured brakes, couplings and torque limiters for industrial motion control applications.
1996 Matrix Engineering acquired Inertial Dynamics Inc of USA; name of the company was changed to Matrix International
2006 Renamed Matrix Engineered Systems Ltd
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 12 September 1939
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 28 January 1947
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 24 August 1948
- ↑ Aberdeen Press and Journal 12 December 1969
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 07 October 1971
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 20 January 1972
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 04 May 1972
- ↑ Brechin Advertiser 17 August 1972
- ↑ The Engineer 1974/05/02
- ↑ The Times February 01, 1996