Companies and places

This page give links to places to which key companies were connected. I have also given chapter references in my books How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World (HBSTMW) and Vehicles to Vaccines (VTV) At the bottom of this page I list the chapters by number. Employment stats

AC Cars: West London (Thames Ditton)
Addis: Hertford, Swansea, (Bridgend)
AEC: West London (Southall)
Aga Heat: Leamington, Smethwick
Aquascutum: Corby HBSTMW 12
Airbus: Stevenage, Wales (Broughton)
Airfix: South London
Albright & Wilson: Widnes
Albion Motors: Glasgow, HBSTMW 12, 15
Allen and Hanbury: Inner London, Ware, HBSTMW 8
Allied Iron Founders: Wolverhampton
Amersham International: Metroland (Amersham), Wales (Cardiff)
Armstrong, William & Co: Newcastle, HBSTMW 5, 12 VTV 15
Armstrong Siddeley: Coventry, VTV 10, 13, 16
Armstrong Siddeley Developments: Coventry
Armstrong Whitworth (later part of Hawker Siddeley): Newcastle, Manchester (Openshaw) HBSTMW 5, 12, VTV 13
Army School of Ballooning: Farnborough, HBSTMW 10
Ashmore, Benson & Pease: Stockton, VTV 4
Associated British Foods: Wigan, Birmingham, VTV 19
Associated Electrical Industries: Manchester, Rugby, Lincoln, Harlow, HBSTMW 13, 15, VTV 2, 7, 9
Aston Martin: Coventry, HBSTMW 16, VTV 11
Astra Zeneca: Macclesfield, Liverpool Cambridge, VTV 22
Astonish Cleaning Products: Bradford
Avery: Birmingham, VTV 5
Avro (later part of Hawker Siddeley): Manchester , Oldham, Southampton HBSTMW 12, 13, 15, VTV 13
Automatic Telephone and Electric: Liverpool
Austin (later part of BMC and then British Leyland): Birmingham, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16
Austin and Pickersgill: Sunderland
Aveling Barford: Grantham,

Babcock: Plymouth (Devonport), Eastern Scotland (Rosyth)
BAC: Stevenage
Bakelite: Newton Aycliffe
BAT: Southampton
BAE Systems: Hull, Southampton, Washington, Glasgow,
Baker Perkins: Peterborough
Barclay Curle: Glasgow, HBSTMW 10
Bassett Lowke: Inner London, Northampton, HBSTMW 8, 15,
Beardmore: Glasgow, HBSTMW 12
Beecham (later part of GSK): Wigan, St Helens, Gloucester, Harlow, Crawley, West Scotland (Irvine), Southeast (Worthing) HBSTMW 8
Bell Brothers Iron: Middlesbrough
Bentley: Crewe, HBSTMW 10
Berger Paints: East London
Beyer Peacock: Manchester
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company: Birmingham
Bolckow and Vaughan: Middlesbrough
Boots: Nottingham, HBSTMW 8, 12
Boulton and Paul: Norwich
Boulton & Watt: Birmingham HBSTMW 1
Bowater: Stevenage, Liverpool, South East (Sittinghbourne)
Brintons Carpets: Kidderminster
Britains: North London (Walthamstow) Nottingham (owned by Dobson Park as Britains Petite), VTV 18
British Aluminium Company: Western Scotland (Fort William), Swansea, HBSTMW 7
British Cellophane: Southwest (Bridgewater), Barrow in Furness
British Cellulose: Derby (Spondon), HBSTMW 12
British Dyestuffs Corporation (later part of ICI) : Huddersfield, Manchester (Blackley, Trafford Park), Northwest (Ellesmere Port), East Scotland (Grangemouth), HBSTMW 12, 14
British Dynamite Company (later Nobel Industries and part of ICI) Ardeer, HBSTMW 7
British Electric Telegraph Company (later part of the GPO): Inner London HBSTMW 1
British Insulated Callender’s Cables: Erith, Manchester, Runcorn (Helsby), Liverpool
British Nylon Spinners: Wales (Pontypool)
British Sugar: East Midlands (Newark), East Anglia (Wisdington) (Bury St Edmunds) (Cantley)
British Tabulating Machines (later part of ICL): Letchworth, HBSTMW 15
British Thomson Houston: Rugby, Lincoln, HBSTMW 12
Britten Norman: Isle of Wight
Britvic: Hemel Hempstead, East London, Rugby, Leeds
Brompton Bicycles: (Greenford) West London
Broom & Wade: High Wycombe
Brown, David: Huddersfield
Brown, John: Sheffield, Glasgow
Brunner Mond (later part of ICI): Middlesbrough, Runcorn HBSTMW 8, 14
Brush: East Midlands (Loughborough), HBSTMW 11
BSA: Birmingham, Coventry, Redditch, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16
BTR: East London, Leyland and Preston,
Burberry: Basingstoke, HBSTMW 12
Burrell, Charles: (Thetford) East Anglia HBSTMW 1
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co (later part of GSK): Inner London, South London (Wandsworth) (Beckenham), Dartford, HBSTMW 8
Burton, Montague: Leeds
Butterley: Ripley HBSTMW 1

Cadbury: Birmingham, HBSTMW 8
Calico Printers Association: Manchester
Cammell-Laird: Liverpool (Birkenhead)
Carreras: Inner London, Belfast
Carron Iron Works: Falkirk, HBSTMW 5
Carpets International: Kidderminster, Halifax, VTV 17
Chad Valley: Birmingham, Telford, HBSTMW 15,
Chance Brothers glass works: Birmingham HBSTMW 1, 8
Chappell: Inner London
Charnos: Nottingham
Chubb: Wolverhampton HBSTMW 1
Church & Co: Northampton
Clarke Chapman (later part of NEI): Newcastle, HBSTMW 5,7, VTV 2
Clayton & Shuttleworth: Lincoln, HBSTMW 12 HBSTMW 1
Clipper Motor Tyres (later Continental): Coventry, HBSTMW 9, 10
Coalbrookdale: Telford, HBSTMW 3
Coates Viyella: Manchester
Cohen 600 Group: Letchworth, Colchester, VTV 5
Colchester Machine Tools (was part of 600 Group): Huddersfield
Colman Mustard: Norwich
Colville Steel: Ravenscraig and Motherwell near Glasgow, VTV 3
Commer: Luton
CompAir: Slough
Corah: Leicester
Cossor: Harlow, HBSTMW 16
Cosworth: Northampton
Courtaulds: Manchester, Coventry, Northwest, East Midlands, Braintree, Liverpool HBSTMW 1
Cusson’s Soap: Manchester (Salford)
Coventry Ordnance Works: Coventry, HBSTMW 12, Ordnance 4
Coventry Sewing Machine Company: Coventry, HBSTMW 9
Crittall: Braintree
Crompton Parkinson (later part of Hawker Siddeley) : Leeds, Chelmsford, HBSTMW 11
Crosfield Electronics: Hemel Hempstead
Crossley: Manchester

Daimler: Coventry, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16
Davy Ashmore: Sheffield, Stockton VTV 4
Decca: Kingston West London
de Havilland: North London, Hatfield, Watford, HBSTMW 12
Dick, Kerr: Western Scotland (Kilmarnock), Preston
Dickinson, John: Hemel Hempstead, Watford
Distillers: Hull, Glasgow
Dorman Long: Middlesbrough, HBSTMW 11
Douglas Motor Bikes (later part of Westinghouse Brake and Signal): Bristol, HBSTMW 10
Doulton: South London, Stoke on Trent HBSTMW 1
Dunlop: Birmingham, Coventry, Liverpool HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16

Ecko: East Anglia (Southend), HBSTMW 15
Ediswan: Newcastle
Elliott Automation: Inner London, Eastern Scotland (Glenrothes), Metrolands (Borehamwood) HBSTMW 1
EMI: West London, Hayes HBSTMW 15
English China Clays: St Austell
English Electric: Stafford, Bradford, Preston, Blackburn, Eastern Scotland (Glenrothes), Stevenage, Luton,Liverpool HBSTMW 14, VTV 7, 13
ENTACO: Redditch
Ercol: High Wycombe
Express Lifts: Northampton, Leicester

Fairey: Hayes, Stockport HBSTMW 12, VTV 5, 6, 13, 16
Ferranti: Inner London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bracknell, Eastern Scotland, Oldham, VTV 13, 16
Ferguson Radio and TV: North London
Fisher Bendix: Liverpool
Fisons: Ipswich (Thetford) East Anglia
Foster, J.W. (Reebock): Bolton
Furness Withy: Sunderland
Furse, WJ: Nottingham
GEC: Coventry, Rugby, Preston, Manchester, Stafford, Leicester, Liverpool, Lincoln, North London (Wembley), Northwest (Newton le Willows), Colchester, Chelmsford, Metroland (Borehamwood), Southeast (Gravesend), Birmingham, Slough, HBSTMW 12, 14, VTV 7
Gilbey Gin: Harlow
Gillette: Slough
Gillow (Waring and): North-west (Lancaster) East London HBSTMW 1
GKN: Merthyr Tydfil (Dowlais), Birmingham, Bristol, Telford
Glynwed: Wolverhampton
Gomme (G Plan): High Wycombe
GSK (Glaxo): West London, Northwest (Ulverston Cumbria), Stevenage, Liverpool (Glaxo) HBSTMW 8
Greenall Whitley & Co: Warrington
Guinness: Dublin, North London
Guy Motors: Wolverhampton

Hadley Page: Radlett, North London (Wembley, Harrow) HBSTMW 12
Harbutts Plasticine: Southwest (Bath), HBSTMW 8
Harland & Wolff: Belfast, HBSTMW 7, VTV 14
Hawker Siddeley: West London (Kingston upon Thames), Hull, Hatfield, Stevenage
Hawthorn, R&W: Newcastle, HBSTMW 1, 5
Head Wrightson: Stockton, VTV 2
Heals: Inner London HBSTMW 1
Herbert, Alfred: Coventry
High Duty Alloys (part of Hawker Siddeley): Redditch, Northwest (Distington Cumbria), Slough
Hille: East London, Watford, Wales (Ebbw Vale)
Hillman: Coventry, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16
Holman Brothers: Camborne
Hornby:Liverpool, South East (Margate), HBSTMW 15, VTV 18
Hornsby: Grantham HBSTMW 1
Hotpoint (later GEC Domestic Appliances): Peterborough
Hovis (later RHM): Macclesfield, HBSTMW 8
Humber: Coventry, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16
Humphreys & Glasgow: Inner London, VTV 4
Huntley and Palmer: Reading, HBSTMW 8

ICI: Middlesbrough, Northwich, Slough, Manchester, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Bracknell, Runcorn, Eastern Scotland (Grangemouth)
ICL: Stevenage, Bracknell, Manchester
IMI: Swansea
Ineos: Runcorn, Newton Aycliffe, Eastern Scotland (Grangemouth)

Jacobs Crackers: Dublin, Liverpool
Jaguar: Coventry, Birmingham, HBSTMW 14, 16, VTV 10, 11
JCB: Rocester, Wales (Wrexham)
JLR (owned by Tata): Liverpool
Johnson & Johnson: Slough
Johnson Matthey: Inner London, North London, Harlow, Metroland (Royston) HBSTMW 1
Jones & Shipman: Leicester, VTV 5
Jowett Motors: Bradford

K Shoes: Northwest (Kendal), Barrow in Furness
Karrier: Huddersfield, Luton
Kellogg: Manchester, Wales (Wrexham)
Kenwood: Central Southern (Woking), (Havant)
Kodak: Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage

Lancashire Steel: Manchester
Lebus Furniture: North London, Scunthorpe, VTV 18
Lesney: East London (Hackney) HBSTMW 16, VTV 18
Lever Brothers: Liverpool (Port Sunlight), Warrington, HBSTMW 8, 12
Leyland: Leyland, Kingston HBSTMW 15, VTV 16,
Lines Bros: South London, HBSTMW 15, 16, VTV 18
Lister, RA: Southwest (Dursley, Glos), Swindon
Littlewoods: Liverpool
Lotus Shoes: Stafford
Lotus sports cars: Norwich (Hethel), North London
Lucas: Birmingham, Coventry, Wales (Cwmbran Girling), Burnley, Liverpool (Fazakerley), Hemel Hempstead (Rotax) West London, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, VTV 12, 13
Lyons, J: West London, HBSTMW 8

Magnesium Elektron: Manchester
Mann, George: Leeds
Maples: Inner London HBSTMW 1
Mappin (& Webb): Sheffield HBSTMW 1
Marconi: Chelmsford, East London (Dalston), North London (Wembley), East Anglia (Billericay), Stevenage, Basildon, Liverpool, Eastern Scotland (Dunfermline) HBSTMW 12, 14, VTV 7, 8, 13,
Marley: Maidstone (Harrietsham)
Mars: Slough
Maxim Nordenfeldt: Crayford, Erith, Dartford
Mather & Platt (textile machinery): Manchester
Maudslay: South London, Coventry, London Machine Tools, HBSTMW 1, 10
MBDA: Stevenage, Bolton
McVitie: (Harlesden) North London, Stockport, Northwest (Carlisle), Halifax, Liverpool (Aintree)
Meccano: Liverpool HBSTMW 8, 15, 16
Meredew: Letchworth, VTV 18
Metropolitan Cammell: Birmingham
Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon Company: Birmingham, HBSTMW 5
Mettoy: Northampton, Swansea HBSTMW 15, VTV 18
MK: Basildon
Morris: Oxford, Coventry, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16
Mulliner: Northampton
Mullard (later part of Phillips): South London, West London, Southampton, Blackburn
Murphy Radio: Welwyn Garden City, HBSTMW 15

Nabisco (Shredded Wheat): Welwyn Garden City, VTV 19
David Napier & Co: West London, HBSTMW 10
Napier: Inner London, Glasgow HBSTMW 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 15,
National Explosives Company: Southwest (Cornwall, Upton Towans), HBSTMW 7
Naysmith: Manchester HBSTMW 5
Nene Plastics (Rosebud dolls bought by Mattel in 1967): Wellingborough
New Holland: Basildon
Nissan UK: Sunderland VTV 10
Nobel Industries (later part of ICI): Ardeer HBSTMW 14
Norvic Shoes: Norwich

Odhams Press: Watford
Olding, Jack: North London, HBSTMW 15, 16
Osram: West London, Manchester, HBSTMW 11

Palmer Glass: (Whitefriars) Inner London, HBSTMW 1, 8
Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company: Northeast (Jarrow), HBSTMW 5
Pears Soap: Inner London, HBSTMW 12
Parsons, CA (later part of NEI): Newcastle, HBSTMW 5, VTV 2
Pemberton-Billing Ltd (later Supermarine): Southampton, HBSTMW 10
Perkins: Peterborough, Stafford, VTV 11
Pilkington: St Helens, Corby HBSTMW 1, 14, 15, 17, VTV 17
Platignum (Mentmore): Stevenage
Players: Nottingham
Plessey: East London, Plymouth, Swindon, Northampton, Liverpool, East Midlands (Beeston), Central Southern England (Towcester), Wales (Cardiff) ,HBSTMW 14, 15 VTV 7, 8, 9
Pneumatic Tyre Company (Dunlop): Dublin, Coventry, HBSTMW 9
Polypipe: Yorkshire (Doncaster)
Portals: Southwest (Bath), Basingstoke
Power Gas: Stockton, VTV 4
Premier Cycle Works: Coventry, HBSTMW 9
Pressed Steel: Swindon
Pretty Polly: Nottingham
Pye: Cambridge HBSTMW 15, VTV 8

Qualcast: Derby, VTV 3, 18

Racal: Bracknell, Kingston
Radio and Allied (Sobell later part of GEC): Merthyr Tydfil
Raleigh: Nottingham, HBSTMW 9, 14, 16 VTV 6
Ransome: Ipswich HBSTMW 1
RHM (later Premier Foods): Corby, Liverpool VTV 19
Reckett & Colman: Hull, Norwich
Redland: Reigate and Redhill
Reynolds Tube: Birmingham HBSTMW 1
Reyrolle, A , Engineers: Newcastle, VTV 2
Riley Motors: Coventry
Robey & Co: Lincoln, HBSTMW 12
Rodime: Eastern Scotland (Glenrothes)
Rolls Razor: Hemel Hempstead
Rolls-Royce plc: Derby, Washington, Northwest (Barnoldswick), Birmingham, Bristol, West Scotland (Inchinnan), HBSTMW 10, VTV 2, 6, 13, 16
Rolls-Royce Motors: Crewe, (Central Southern) Goodwood HBSTMW 10, VTV 11, 16
Rootes Group: Coventry, Liverpool HBSTMW 1, 15, VTV 10, 11
Rothman: Northeast (Darlington)
Rover: Birmingham, Coventry HBSTMW 14, 15, 16, 17 VTV 10, 11
Rowney: Bracknell HBSTMW 1
Rowntree: York, South London
Royal Aircraft Establishment (Factory): Farnborough, HBSTMW 10
Royal Enfield: Redditch, HBSTMW 10
Royal Ordnance Factories: Blackburn, Wigan, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Liverpool HBSTMW 12, 15
Rudge: Wolverhampton, HBSTMW 9, 10
Rugby Portland Cement: Rugby
Ruston and Hornsby: Lincoln, HBSTMW 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, VTV 2
Rylands, John (Textiles): Manchester, Northwest (Bolton), (Chorley) , Wigan

Sarsons: Manchester
Saunders Roe: Isle of Wight (East Cowes) VTV 13,
Scammell: Inner London, Watford
Shadow Factories: Blackburn, Manchester, HBSTMW 15
Short Brothers: Rochester, Belfast, HBSTMW 10, 12, 13, 15
Showerings: Southwest (Shepton Mallet), VTV 19
Schreiber furniture: Harlow
Schweppes: Liverpool, HBSTMW 8
Seddon Atkinson: Oldham
Siddeley Deasy Company: Coventry, HBSTMW 10
Siebe Gorman: Kingston, South London
Siemens Brothers (British): East London (Woolwich), Stafford, HBSTMW 1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, VTV 2, 7
Singer Motors: Coventry, HBSTMW 10
Simmington: East Midlands (Market Harborough)
Singer Sewing Machines: Glasgow, HBSTMW 9
Smedley, John: (Cromford) East Midlands, HBSTMW 4
Smith + Nephew: Hull, Watford, Welwyn Garden City VTV 22
Smiths Industries: North London (Cricklewood) VTV 12, 14
Sopwith (later part of Hawker Siddeley) : West London (Kingston upon Thames), HBSTMW 10
Spear & Jackson: Sheffield
Spirella: Letchworth
Standard Motors: Coventry, Liverpool HBSTMW 10, 16, VTV 11
Standard Telephones (STC)(bought by Nortel) : Harlow, Basildon
Stanton & Staveley: Nottingham, VTV 3
Staples: North London
Stead & Simpson: Leeds, Leicester, VTV 20
Stephenson, Robert: Newcastle, HBSTMW 5
Stewarts & Lloyds: Corby, VTV 3
Sunbeam: Wolverhampton, West London HBSTMW 10, 15, VTV 10, 11
Supermarine: Southampton, HBSTMW 10, 14, 15, VTV 13
Sutton Seeds: Reading
Swan Hunter: Newcastle, HBSTMW 5, 7, 12, VTV 14
Swizzles Matlow: East Midlands (High Peak)
Tate and Lyle: Liverpool, HBSTMW 8
Taylors Bell Founders: East Midlands (Loughborough) HBSTMW 1
Tennant: Glasgow, HBSTMW 8
Terry, Herbert: Redditch
Thackray, Charles (surgical instrument makers): Leeds
Thompson, John (boiler maker): Wolverhampton, VTV 2
Thorn: North London, Leicester HBSTMW 16, VTV 7, 8, 9
Thornton Chocolate: East Midlands (Alfreton)
Thornycroft (Trucks) : Basingstoke, later taken over by Scammell and moved to Watford
Thrupp & Maberly: Inner London HBSTMW 1
Tillie & Henderson: Derry, HBSTMW 8
Triplex Safety Glass: St Helens, HBSTMW 10
Triumph: Coventry, HBSTMW 10, 16, VTV 1, 10, 11
Turner E.R.& F. : Ipswich

Ugo Foods: Metrolands (Borehamwood)
Ultra: West London, HBSTMW 15, VTV 8
Unilever: Liverpool (Port Sunlight), many other locations including Hull, Leeds, Northwest towns including Runcorn, Widnes, Warrington , Burton on Trent, Gloucester HBSTMW 4, 15, VTV 19
United Alkali Company (later part of ICI): Widnes, HBSTMW 14
United Biscuits: Glasgow, Halifax, Carlisle, Liverpool, Ashby de la Zouch, West London (Harlesden) and Manchester
United Glass: Harlow
United Steel: Scunthorpe, VTV 3

Vauxhall: South London, Luton, HBSTMW 10, 12, 14, 15, 16 VTV 10
Vent Axia: Crawley
Vickers: Sheffield, Swindon, Newcastle, , HBSTMW 1, 12 VTV 15
Vickers Aviation: Crayford (Kent), Weybridge (Brooklands) HBSTMW 15
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering: Barrow in Furness, VTV 15
Vosper Thornycroft: Southampton, became part of Babcock
Vulcan Foundry: Northwest (Newton le Willows), HBSTMW 5

Waddington, John: Leeds
Walls, Thomas: North London (Acton)
Warburtons: Bolton
Watson, John (soap makers later part of Lever Bros): Leeds
Weir Group: Glasgow, Todmorden (Rochdale), VTV 2, 6, 13, 14, 17
Wellcome: South London, HBSTMW 12
Westinghouse Brake and Signal (bought by Hawker Siddeley): Inner London, Southwest (Chippenham), Bristol, VTV 15
Westinghouse, British (later part of AEI): Manchester, HBSTMW 11, 14
Whessoe: North East (Darlington), VTV 2, 4
Whitaker & Sons: Runcorn, HBSTMW 6
White & Poppe: Coventry, Guildford, HBSTMW 10, 14, Ordnance 4
Whitworth: Wellingborough
Whitworth, Joseph: Manchester, HBSTMW 1
Wiggins Teape: Basingstoke, Inner London, Metroland (Beaconsfield), Aberdeen, Southeast (Canterbury, Chartham)
Wigram and Green: East London, HBSTMW 5
Willans & Robinson: West London (Thames Ditton), Rugby
Winsor and Newton: North London HBSTMW 1
Wolseley: Birmingham, HBSTMW 10, 14, 15
Wright Bus: Northern Ireland (Ballymena)