Schreiber Wood Industries
of Argyle Way, Stevenage (1956)
of Rye House, Hoddesdon, Herts (1972)
1938 Chaim Samuel Schreiber arrived in Britain from Poland
1954 A site for a factory for Schreiber Wood Industries Ltd. (formerly Lordship Products Ltd.) had been leased by the (Stevenage) Development Corporation.[1]
c.1955 Started making radio and television cabinets using mass production techniques (the Schreiber System Machine) not previously used in the furniture industry but subsequently licensed to other companies both at home and abroad.
1956 Maker of cabinets for radios and televisions[2]
1956 Messrs. Schreiber Wood Industries Ltd. of Hackney, London.[3]
1963 Introduced bedroom furniture[4]
1967 Acquired Greaves and Thomas[5] with a view to using it as a springboard into export markets.
1972 Commissioned construction of a kitchen furniture factory at Hoddesdon. Hertfordshire.[6] and another at Runcorn[7] but never occupied it[8]
Renamed Schreiber Industries
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Sources of Information
- The Times Aug. 7, 1974