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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 171,272 pages of information and 248,155 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.

St. Helens Cable and Rubber Co

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April 1908.
1918.
January 1920.
1921.
August 1926.
1926.
May 1930.
December 1946.
November 1954.

of Slough, Bucks (now Berks); of Warrington, Lancs.

Previously St. Helens Cable Co

1906 Incorporated as a limited company.

1914 Manufacturers of rubber tyres, tubes and matting for motor vehicles; also "Dialite" cables, rubber cables and ebonite. [1]

1921 Patent - Improvements in the manufacture of vehicle tyres of rubber. [2]

1922 Directors Sir T. O. Callender, D. Sinclair, G. Chauvin, Capt. D. J. Sinclair.

1929 Patent - Improvements in and connected with barrels or drums. [3]

1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Electric Wires and Cables for all purposes. (Stand Nos. Cb.501 and Cb.400) [4]

1938 Member of Cable Makers' Association

1954 St. Helens Cable and Rubber Co., Ltd. Electric cable and general rubber goods manufacturers. Directors: T. Martin-Harvey {^Chairman}} R. M. Fairfield; W. C. Handley; W. G. Hendry; C. Baseden; Sir William Barton and G. J. Poole (Alternates), Head Office: St. Helens Works, Slough, Bucks. T,: Slough 20333. T,A.: St. Helens, Slough. Branches and agents in principal towns and overseas.[5]

1960 BICC sold parts of its subsidiary, St Helens Cable and Rubber Co, to P. B. Cow and Co[6]


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