Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,102 pages of information and 249,768 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.
of Skelmersdale
1961 Acquired by N. Kilvert and Sons, a subsidiary of Lloyd's Packing Warehouses
1966 New factory opened at Skelmersdale. Subsidiary of US company founded by the Benjamin Hirsh.[1]
1975 Acquired by Holt Lloyd International
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