Difference between revisions of "R. H. Windsor"
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c.1947 Company incorporated | c.1947 Company incorporated | ||
1953 Acquired | 1953 Acquired [[J. R. Collyear|J. R. Collyear Ltd]], engineers<ref>The Times, Sep 19, 1953</ref> | ||
By 1955 had acquired [[Klaxon Co]] | By 1955 had acquired [[Klaxon Co]] | ||
Revision as of 16:32, 7 June 2019
Maker of injection moulding and extrusion equipment for plastics; factories at Chessington, Hanworth and Wembley
1941 Imre Gaspar developed his first injection moulding machine for R. H. Windsor
c.1947 Company incorporated
1953 Acquired J. R. Collyear Ltd, engineers[1]
By 1955 had acquired Klaxon Co
1956 Camp Bird announced it had a close working relationship with R. H. Windsor[2].
1956 Minority interest owned by Camp Bird[3].
1958 The R H Windsor holding company acquired a majority interest in Webley and Scott, general engineers and gun makers; Webley and Scott in turn acquired a majority holding in R. H. Windsor; the merger would provide extra capacity for Windsor machines[4] [5].
1961 Arusha Industries, having acquired Webley and Scott, owned the company[6]
c.1967 was owned by General and Engineering Industries[7]
1969 The plastics machinery business was acquired by GKN which was building a larger group of plastics machinery interests[8]
1970 GKN formed a plastics machinery subsidiary GKN Windsor, which would include the machinery interests of R. H. Windsor and the Peco division of GKN Machinery[9]