Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,342 pages of information and 246,084 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Fordham Pressings

From Graces Guide
Revision as of 17:45, 5 April 2024 by PaulF (talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
1938.

Fordham Pressings Ltd. of Dudley Road, Wolverhampton.

1938 Syphon service and seamless steel flushing cisterns.

1949 Public offer of shares[1]

1952 'An enterprising link-up with Geeco Products Ltd. (plastic moulders) is announced by Fordham Pressings Ltd., of Wolverhampton. The Geeco (G. and E. Equipment and Products) plant has recently been moved from Ruislip (Middlesex) to Fordham's Melbourne works in Dudley Road. This association of the two companies is designed to speed-up new developments in the field of sanitary engineering and plumbing.'[2]

1954 Geeco moved from Wolverhampton to new premises in New Milton.[3]

1956 Acquired Amoa Chemical Co[4]

1969 Fordham Pressings claimed to be the "World leader in plastic cisterns"[5]

1971 Hepworth Iron Co acquired Fordham Pressings.

1972 Virtually all of the capacity in plastic cisterns was sold; demand for acrylic baths increased.[6]

by 1988 presumably the company had become Fordham Bathrooms and Kitchens

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Times Nov. 28, 1949
  2. Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 03 September 1952
  3. New Milton Advertiser - Saturday 20 November 1954
  4. The Times Mar. 9, 1959
  5. The Times Dec. 30, 1969
  6. The Times Apr. 16, 1973