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Memory Lane!

whjohnson
Reflecting on the 43 years I have been working in the industry and all of those once familiar famous brand names, I began to wonder what happened to them - apart from globalization, but where did they end up? Who bought out who? And who just gave up and shut down completely?


Here's a few names to start the ball rolling -

Allen West, makers of contacters, motor starters and switchgear.

Ellison - motor starter, switch gear etc.

MTE LTD, contacters, isolators, switchgear etc


What happened to these companies? Where are they now?

We all know that the likes of Electrium and Schnieder pretty own everything these days - Square D, Telemechanique, Merlin Gerin et al

But whatever happened to those old faithfuls whose kit I installed and worked years ago?
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    Agree. Kit is not as robust as it used to be. I wept when the bean counters value engineered the sheer quality of Memshield 2 stuff down to the rubbish that is now Memshield 3.

    Crabtree CEEFORM dol starters and the old Allen West oil dashpot ones were all the rage when I was a pup in my 20's. No mcb boards, all Bill Red Spot HRC or even earlier 3036 stuff back when I started in 1977..

    Crabtree C50 3871s came after, followed by Federal's stablok with the light grey mcbs. After this came Merlin Gerin. No idea what they have now. I left in 2002 to go on my own.


    I remember AEI and Hawker Siddley motors. B.I.C.C cable - mainly pyro but also much conduit singles.
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    Agree. Kit is not as robust as it used to be. I wept when the bean counters value engineered the sheer quality of Memshield 2 stuff down to the rubbish that is now Memshield 3.

    Crabtree CEEFORM dol starters and the old Allen West oil dashpot ones were all the rage when I was a pup in my 20's. No mcb boards, all Bill Red Spot HRC or even earlier 3036 stuff back when I started in 1977..

    Crabtree C50 3871s came after, followed by Federal's stablok with the light grey mcbs. After this came Merlin Gerin. No idea what they have now. I left in 2002 to go on my own.


    I remember AEI and Hawker Siddley motors. B.I.C.C cable - mainly pyro but also much conduit singles.
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