Baker Perkins Historical Society - Virtual Books
BAKER PERKINS AT WAR
7- DURING THE COLD WAR
Baker Perkins Ltd, Peterborough
- Post War production at Westwood
- Return to production of machines and ovens almost complete by end 1945.
- Work on the Bofors Guns continued in the L70 Bay until the late 1950s.
- National Service and its effect on the business.
- Defending the Realm
- The Bevin Boys
- Home for Christmas?
Rose Brothers, Gainsborough (Acquired in 1961)
- Rose Brothers and the post-war armaments business
- Seacat surface to air missile system
- Tigercat ground to air missile system
- The withdrawal from Defence work
- The Cold War and the Space Age
- Explosives, Pyrotechnics and Propellants
- Cordite Mixing and number of mixers sold.
- "Peace-keeping Missiles" and the Space Shuttle
- Termination of the group's activities.
Baker Perkins Chemical Machinery Ltd, Stoke on Trent
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