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BAKER PERKINS AT WAR

4 - BETWEEN THE WARS

Forgrove, Leeds (Acquired in 1943)

• Expansion and Planning for War

Northern Manufacturing Company, Gainsborough

• Rose approached by the Admiralty to manufacture Anti-Aircraft Gun Control Systems..

Werner & Pfleiderer, Saginaw

• 1920 - Joseph Baker & Sons purchase the Hess Street factory

Rose Brothers, Gainsborough (Acquired in 1961)

• Middle 1930s - The formation (and destruction)of Rose Cologne

Other Constituent Companies between the wars

• Exploiting the concept of ball & pebble mills

William Douglas, Putney (Acquired in 1959)

• Developing an industrial refrigeration business

Rownson Conveyors, Kings Cross, London (Acquired in 1960)

• Gravity Roller Conveyors for Ordnance Factories

William Jack & Sons , Glasgow (Acquired in 1961)

• Manufacture of Laundry Presses for the Admiralty

James Halley, West Bromwich (Acquired in 1961)

• Built the first walk-in type of rotary web-fed printing press.

Bedewell Works, Hebburn on Tyne (Acquired in 1945)

• Armour Piercing Bombs

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