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Callender's Cable & Construction Co Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Callender & Sons
  • Calender's Bitumen Telegraph & Waterproof Co Ltd
  • Callender, Sir Thomas
  • British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd

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

  • Erith, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
  • Millbank, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England

Sectors:

  • Oil, coal, coke, etc, products manufacture Coal & coke products manufacture
  • Electrical & electronic engineering Electrical wire & cable production

Notes:

Traced origins to 1877 and the establishment of Callender & Sons, bitumen refiners and asphalt pavers, at Millbank, London. Relocated to Erith, Kent, 1880. Incorporated 1882 as Callender's Bitumen Telegraph & Waterproof Co Ltd. Thereafter, under (Sir) Thomas Callender, 1855-1938, focused on production and laying of insulated cables which soon dominated the business. 1945 merged with British Insulated Cables Ltd to form British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd (BICC)

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