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Conveyancer Fork Trucks Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Rubery Owen Messier Ltd
  • Liverpool Refrigeration & Engineering Co Ltd
  • Conveyancer Ltd
  • Coventry Climax

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Warrington, Warrington, Cheshire, North West, England

Sectors:

  • Mechanical engineering Lifting & handling equipment production

Notes:

Traced origins as fork lift truck makers to 1946 when Rubery Owen Messier Ltd, a maker of aircraft components, diversified into fork lift production. ROM traced its origins to a refrigeration plant manufacturing business established in 1897 and known for many years as Liverpool Refrigeration & Engineering Co Ltd. Controlled by Rubery Owen Group from 1939. Renamed several times including in 1970 Conveyancer Ltd as by now fork lift trucks dominated its output. Conveyancer Fork Trucks was a subsidiary. Subsequently sold to Coventry Climax

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