Universal Grinding Wheel Co
of Stafford.
previously Rooper and Harris
1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with abrasive wheels.
1928 Alliance with Morgan Crucible Co to share technical expertise and work together; Morgan would subscribe for new shares in the company.[1].
1934 Acquired the goodwill of the grinding wheel business of L. Sterne and Co, the whole capital of British Abrasive Wheel Co and B. R. Rowland and Co.[2]
1935 Limited company incorporated. Issue of preference shares; formerly an American monopoly; chairman John Field Beale of GKN.
1937 Abrasive wheel manufacturers. "Bauxilite" Abrasive Wheels. "Unirundum" Abrasive Wheels.
1960 Acquired Luke and Spencer.[3]
1966 Universal Grinding Wheel Group Holdings Ltd was registered.
1968 Acquired English Abrasives Corporation.
1969 Universal Grinding Wheel Group Holdings Ltd was renamed Universal Grinding Ltd.
1974 Renamed Unicorn Industries Ltd.
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p244
- 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries