Sunvic Controls Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Sun Electrical Co Ltd
- Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co Ltd
- AEI Ltd
- Tomkins Plc
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
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Precision instruments production
Industrial control equipment production
Notes:
Traced origins to early 1930s when established as a sales organisation for Sun Electrical Co Ltd and Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co Ltd. Then based in Covent Garden. Developed into a research entity involved with heating control and started to manufacture heating control equipment, initially for hot plates of electric cookers. Expanded rapidly 1939-45 to make control equipment for much wider range of applications. Subsequently owned by Metropolitan Vickers, later by AEI Ltd. 1951 relocated to purpose built factory at Harlow. In due course part of Tomkins Plc until 2001. Continues at Glasgow in 2012
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Other Business Names:
- Sun Electrical Co Ltd
- Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co Ltd
- AEI Ltd
- Tomkins Plc
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
- Precision instruments production Industrial control equipment production