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Carver Plc

Other Business Names:

  • Carver, Joseph

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

  • Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Hereford & Worcester, West Midlands, England
  • Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands, West Midlands, England

Sectors:

  • Leather & other skins processing & products manufacture Leather industrial products eg belting, hose, bellows, etc, manufacture
  • Leather & other skins processing & products manufacture Saddlery, harness, etc, production

Notes:

Traces origins to Joseph Carver who established in 1776 a saddlery, collar and whip thong manufacturing business at Walsall. Before 1939 making walking sticks, chimney cleaning apparatus, etc, in addition to saddlery. 1952 started manufacture of holding equipment, especially clamps. Subsequently moved to Bromsgrove and developed portfolio of other engineering/electronic interests especially control systems

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