Collection of trade literature from Ferguson Pailin Ltd and successor companies
- Made:
- circa 1930-1956; circa 1954-1995; circa 1940 in Openshaw
- creator:
- Ferguson Pailin Limited
Brochures, reports, invitations, instruction manuals and other trade literature relating to Ferguson Pailin Ltd, AEI (Higher Openshaw), GEC (Higher Openshaw), GEC Alsthom (Higher Openshaw & Kidsgrove), ALSTOM (Higher Openshaw, Paris & Stafford) and Medelec Switchgear Ltd of Malta (licensee).
Ferguson Pailin Ltd manufactured switchgear on the same site in Higher Openshaw from 1913 until the operation closed down in 2003, by which time Alstom owned the company. Founded by Samuel Ferguson and George Pailin, ex-employees of Ferranti, the business was essentially a take-over of the Ferranti switchgear operation.
The collection also includes brochures from The Record Electrical Company Ltd, an unrelated company.
Details
- Category:
- Archive
- Object Number:
- YA2010.38
- type:
- trade literature
- credit:
- Gift of David Goodfellow
