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Tilghman Wheelabrator

From Graces Guide
1969.

of Broadheath, Altrincham, near Manchester, and Sheffield, makers of air-compressing and sand-blast machinery.

1966 Tilghman'sLtd was renamed Tilghman Wheelabrator Ltd

1966 ".... great bulk of Tilghman's business consists of making Wheelabrator shot-blasting equipment under licence, which came up for re-negotiation this year. There have been difficulties between Tilghman's and Wheelabrator and the transformation of Tilghman's into a ..."[1]

1967 Research and development by Tilghman Wheelabrator, of Altrincham, into efficient and economical foundry shotblasting and de-coring as one operation, has now resulted in a patented combined system for Wheelabrator machines. [2]

1990 Tilghman Wheelabrator Limited, a Wheelabrator Company[3]

By 1994 was a subsidiary of WMX Inc (formerly Waste Management Inc).[4]

1996 Acquired by United States Filter Corporation; the company was renamed USF Surface Preparation Ltd[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Daily Post 20 July 1966
  2. 11 July 1967 Wolverhampton Express and Star
  3. Dudley & District Chronicle 20 July 1990
  4. 1994 Annual report
  5. 1997 Annual report
  • Companies house filings