Vero Precision Engineering
of Southampton.
1955 Private company High Precision Engineering Ltd was established by Geoffrey Verdon-Roe, son of Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe[1] [2] to acquire the business of Weir Precision Engineering Ltd.
1956 To avoid confusion with the name of another company, Verdon Roe changed the company's name to Vero Precision Engineering[3]
Initially attracted many contracts from the Ministry of Defence and the infant nuclear industry. Later had to shift into more standardised products.
1959 Developed a programme-controlled turret-head drilling machine[4]
Two of Vero's engineers came up with the idea of pre-made printed wiring, whch they used whilst making some electronic equipment for machine tool control. Somebody in the company (another report says it was Verdon-Roe) was sufficiently foresighted to appreciate the commercial potential of the idea, with the result that Veroboard became a staple for the electronics industry of the 1960s[5].
1959 US Patent application on a method of making wiring boards where an insulating board is provided with a regular pattern of strips of copper or other electrically conducting material bonded to the board and is perforated by a multiplicity of regularly distributed holes which extend at spaced intervals through the conducting strips[6], something which came to be known as Vero Board.
1961 Precision engineers and merchants and dealers in machines and other tools. [7]
1961 Formation of Vero Electronics.
1964 The Aviation Division of S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd. purchased a second autodrill from Vero Precision Engineering Ltd., because the first one had proved so successful. On one order for 50-off navigational instruments the Company had shown a very favourable saving on tooling costs. The majority of tools concerned would have involved a large percentage of jig boring with a commensurate high hourly rate being charged[8]
1969 When Vero Machine Tools was acquired by Tube Investments[9], the other companies, Vero Precision Engineering, Vero N. C. Developments and Vero Electronics, were not affected by the deal.
1969 Verdon-Roe left the UK to live in Portugal
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ History of Middlesex Tool & Gauge Company [1]
- ↑ The Times, March 27, 1997
- ↑ Flight 6 April 1956 [2]
- ↑ The Engineer 1959/12/11, 208(5420), pp 775-6
- ↑ Practical Electronics December 1966 [3]
- ↑ US 3148438 A
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 36 Issue 1,1964
- ↑ The Times, Apr 09, 1969
- The Times, March 27, 1997