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 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Smiths Aerospace

From Graces Guide

Presumably Smiths Aircraft Instruments was a predecessor of Smiths Aerospace

1984 The name of Smiths (Royston) was changed to Smiths (Harlow) Aerospace[1]

1984 SMITHS INDUSTRIES Aerospace & Defence Systems of Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire[2]

1987 Smiths Industries included a division called Aerospace and Defence Systems; one area of business was flight control systems[3]

2000 Formation of Smiths Group by merger of Smiths with TI Group

2001 Dowty Aerospace Gloucester was renamed Smiths Aerospace Gloucester, a subsidiary of Smiths Aerospace Ltd

2007 Smiths Aerospace was sold to GE Aviation, a division of General Electric, for US$4.8 billion.


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Sources of Information

  1. 1984 Annual Accounts
  2. Bristol Evening Post 13 April 1984
  3. The Times 15 Oct 1987