Vab Products
of Islington and Ealing, maker of curtain rails (1936)
of Albemarle Street, London.(1961)
1924 The Vabest Company advertised for patents and ideas for domestic utilities; address 17 Phoenix Street, Charing Cross Road, London[1]
1936 Private company. Then there was a public issue of shares[2], at which point it presumably became a public company. Manufacturers of the Vab curtain rail.[3] The company will acquire the Vabest Company who own works at Islington and West Ealing.[4]
1942 Public issue of shares[5]. Acquired another company[6]. "... group of subsidiaries entirely owned by Vab Products, which include the Fairylites Co., Archer Works Engineering, and W. Tice & Co. The two last-named are engaged on national work, as is the plating department of Vab, while this company's curtain rail section..."[7]
Later subsidiaries were presumably VAB Rails Ltd and Vab Plastics Ltd
1954 "IMPROVED SALES SERVICE During the year, part of the premises in Sheffield occupied by Royse Brothers, Ltd., were brought into use as a northern depot for the distribution of the products of Vab Rails, Ltd., and Vab Plastics, Ltd., which has had the effect of improving the sales of these companies and their service to our customers"[8]
1959 Mr W. G. F. Westbrooke, managing director of Vab Products, Ltd., has retired from that post and also from the board of that company and those of the subsidiaries, Vab Plastics, Vab Rails and Vab Plating Company[9]
1959 Advertised for medium-sized companies that it could invest in[10]
1960 Had taken over Messrs. Dormer Plastics Ltd[11]
1961 Glass founders, hardware merchants, button distributors, electro platers, plastic distributors, manufacturers of button, reflex reflectors, prismatic lenses, injection mouldings, cycle fittings, curtain rails and fittings, domestic electrical equipment, cutlery and scissors. [12]
1973 "The Modern Group of Companies, of which Modern Automatic Alarms (Northern Ireland), Ltd., and Associated Telephones (Northern Ireland) Ltd., are subsidiaries, have merged with VAB Products, Ltd., and the joint concern is now controlled by the merchant bankers Heenan Biddow."[13]
1976 Shares in Automated Securities (ex-Vab Products) restarted trading[14][15]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Evening News 7 November 1924
- ↑ Bradford Observer 18 December 1936
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Gazette 17 December 1936
- ↑ Daily Express 17 December 1936
- ↑ Sunday Post 29 November 1942
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 15 January 1943
- ↑ Belfast Telegraph 1 December 1942
- ↑ The Scotsman 21 June 1954
- ↑ The Scotsman 29 July 1959
- ↑ Daily Express 10 December 1959
- ↑ Chipping Norton Advertiser 17 November 1960
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ News tbc
- ↑ Dundee Courier 23 June 1976
- ↑ Belfast Telegraph 12 June 1973