Steatite and Porcelain Products
of Stourport on Severn, Worcestershire.
1907 Company established at Earlsfield, London
1910 incorporated as Ernst Hildebrant Ltd.
1917 changed name to the Clay Ring Co. Ltd.
1928 Name changed to Steatite & Porcelain Products Ltd. maker of refractory materials for sealing to glass. New factory built at Stourport in conjunction with Imperial Chemical Industries and Falk Stadelmann and Co.
1930 Description of new works at Stourport. '... this firm was established in 1907 in south-west London to manufacture the magnesia rings and nozzles, which are used on incandescent gas mantles. This business is still carried on, but, owing to the increasing use of electric lighting, the annual output has fallen from 80,000,000 in 1920 to 36,000,000 at the present time. It was therefore decided to extend the business to cover materials, and arrangements were made with the Hermsdorf-Schomburg and Steatit-Magnesia Companies in Germany, in conjunction with Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, and Falk, Stadelmann and Company, Limited, in this country, to build a modern factory for the manufacture of porcelain and steatite insulators. It was also decided to establish a high-tension and mechanical research laboratory to investigate the properties of these products. .....'[1]
1941 Acquired by ICI Metals Division
1964 Acquired by Morgan Crucible Co
1984 Renamed Morgan Matroc which acquired previous subsidiaries Park Royal Porcelain Co Ltd. and Anderman and Ryder Ltd. Company reorganised into 3 divisions: Park Royal, Stourport, and marketing carried on by Morgan Matroc.[2]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1930/05/16
- ↑ 1984 Annual report
- IMI Archives at Birmingham [1]