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Woodall-Duckham

From Graces Guide
1969.

of Crawley

1906 Business founded by Harold Woodall and Arthur McDougall Duckham

1911 Company founded

1920 Private company formed as Woodall-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Co. (1920) Ltd.

Commercialised the Woodall-Duckham retort for the continuous carbonisation of coal, which came to be used in many British gas works

1953 Name changed. Woodall-Duckham was a public company; quoted on the London Stock Exchange in April 1953[1].

1961 Designers and contractors for coal carbonising and coal and oil gasification plants, and ancillary plants for the gas, coking and chemical industries. 2,700 employees.[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times, 4 April 1953
  2. ↑ * 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
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