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Mersey Cable Works

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of Linacre Lane, Bootle, Liverpool.

1926 NEW COMPANIES. MERSEY CABLE WORKS, LTD. Private company. Capital £40,000 in 10,000 7.x per cent, cumulative preference and 30,000 ordinary shares of £1 each. Objects: To carry on the business of manufacturers of electric wires and cables, electric, magnetic ...[1]

1950 EGM held at the Simplex Electric Co, Oldbury. The company was private; a majority of the shares were held by Tube Investments Ltd.

1961 Tube Investments transferred the company to Enfield-Standard Power Cables[2]

1961 Name changed to Linacre Lane Properties Ltd

1971 Linacre Lane Properties Ltd of Stoke-on-Trent was renamed Simplex Electric Co.

1977 Simplex Electric Co was renamed TI Simplex (Holdings) Ltd

1978 TI Simplex (Holdings) Ltd was renamed Simplex Electric Ltd of Brighton

1985 part of Simplex Electrical Holdings Ltd



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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Liverpool Journal of Commerce 01 June 1926
  2. ↑ The Times, April 21, 1961
  • companies house filings
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