Wadham Brothers
of Waterlooville, Cosham, near Portsmouth.
John Harold Wadham and Wilfred Charles Wadham
1905 Company founded.
1947 Private company formed as Wadham Brothers.
1958 Name changed.
1953 Car Body, Public Service Vehicle Body and Goods and Utility Body Builders. Morris House, The Avenue, Southampton. Telephone: 2991-5. Reg. Office : Waterlooville, Hants. Branches also at:— Southsea, Chichester, Winchester, Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight. Directors: W. C. Wadham (Governing). Richard Reginald Newitt, J.P., M.I.Mech.E., F.I.M.I. (Chairman and E. V. Wadham. Managing). W. H. Wadham. John Barrington Barrett. Francis John Wing. Secretary: I. K. Angell, A.C.A., A.C.I.S.
1961 Vehicle distributors, automobile engineers, coach builders, agricultural machinery and industrial machinery distributors and engineers. 1,050 employees.[1]
1962 Acquired Parkinson and Polson and Co with showrooms at Eastbourne, Hailsham and East Grinstead.[2]
1968 Wadham (Holdings) merged with Stringer Motors to form Wadham Stringer[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Eastbourne Gazette - Wednesday 22 January 1969
- ↑ The Times Dec. 20, 1968