Smiths Motor Accessories
of Cricklewood, London.
1944 Private company. One of 4 divisions of S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd[1]:
1945 The Gramophone Co formed a joint company Radiomobile Ltd with Smiths Motor Accessories Ltd to market car radios developed and manufactured by the Gramophone Co; the new company was later to take the name S. Smith and Sons (Radiomobile) Ltd[2].
1951 Smiths Motor Accessories included:
- KLG Sparking Plugs
- Smiths Jacking Systems
- British Jaeger Instruments
- Petro-Flex Tubing Co
- S. Smith and Sons (Radiomobile)
1954 Smiths Motor Accessories Ltd, Witney Airfield, Minster Lovell, Oxon., was advertising for staff[3]
1961 Manufacturers and dealers in motor accessories. [4]
1965 The company was S. Smith and Sons (England) (Motor Accessories Division)
1965 Acquired Lodge Plugs Ltd[5]
1966 The parent company was renamed Smiths Industries
By 1980 was the Smiths Industries Motor Accessory Sales and Service Division
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times 1 January 1945
- ↑ http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/1950_1959/fulltext/020c02.pdf
- ↑ Bristol Evening Post 17 August 1954
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser 08 October 1965