Wagon Repairs
of Birmingham
1918 Private company founded to acquire the wagon-repairing business of wagon-building firms including the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co, The British Wagon Co, S. J. Claye, the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co, Harrison and Camm; Hurst, Nelson and Co; Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Co, the Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Co, and the North Central Wagon Co.
1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history
1936 Company made public.
1939 Duncan Bailey was director.
1957 Subsidiaries listed as Wigan Wagon Co, Principality Wagon Co, Sam E. Stevens, Bolt and Nut Co (Tipton), Handy Angle and Thomas Burnett and Co.[1]
1961 Repairers of wagons and manufacturers of wagon parts. 3,000 employees.[2]
1972 Acquired the Franco traffic signs business from Neoflo (Holdings). A new subsidiary was formed Road Signs - Franco.[3]
1974 The wagon repair business was transferred to a subsidiary, Sam E. Stevens, which would change its name to Wagon Repairs. The parent company became Wagon Industrial Holdings[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post - 27 September 1957
- ↑ * 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star - 3 October 1972
- ↑ The Times Mar. 6, 1974