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GEC Avery
Soho Foundry.jpg
Главные ворота в Soho Foundry, головной офис компании
РаньшеW&T Avery (до 1979 года)
ПромышленностьВесовые машины
ПреемникЭйвери Вай-Троникс
Несуществующий2000 г. (2000)
СудьбаПриобретена Weigh-Tronix для создания Avery Weigh-Tronix
Родитель

W&T Avery Ltd. (позже GEC Avery ) была британским производителем весов . Компания была основана в начале 18 века и в 1818 году получила название W&T Avery. После того, как в 1979 году компания перешла во владение GEC, компания была переименована в GEC-Avery. Компания стала Avery Berkel в 1993 году, когда GEC приобрела голландскую компанию Berkel. После поглощения Weigh-Tronix в 2000 году компания была снова переименована в Avery Weigh-Tronix, при этом бренд Avery Berkel продолжил свою деятельность. Компания базируется в Сметвике , Уэст-Мидлендс, Великобритания.

История [ править ]

Набор весов Эйвери начала 20 века
Набор весов производства Avery в 1960-х годах.
Весы Эйвери для взвешивания людей теперь в музее Леоминстера.

Недокументированное происхождение компании восходит к 1730 году, когда Джеймс Форд основал бизнес в Дигбете . После смерти Джозефа Болдена в 1813 году Уильям и Томас Эйвери взяли на себя его бизнес по изготовлению весов и в 1818 году переименовали его в W&T Avery. Бизнес быстро расширялся, и в 1885 году они владели тремя заводами: Atlas Works в Вест-Бромвиче, Mill Lane Works в Бирмингеме и Moat Lane Works в Дигбете. В 1891 году бизнес стал компанией с ограниченной ответственностью с советом директоров, а в 1894 году акции котировались на Лондонской фондовой бирже. В 1895 году компания купила легендарный Soho Foundry. in Smethwick, a former steam engine factory owned by James Watt & Co. In 1897 the move was complete and the steam engine business was gradually converted to pure manufacture of weighing machines. The turn of the century was marked by managing director William Hipkins' determined efforts in broadening the renown of the Avery brand and transforming the business into a specialist manufacturer of weighing machines.[1] By 1914 the company occupied an area of 32,000m² and had some 3000 employees.

In the inter-war period the growth continued with the addition of specialised shops for cast parts, enamel paints and weighbridge assembly and the product range diversified into counting machines, testing machines, automatic packing machines and petrol pumps. During the second world war the company also produced various types of heavy guns. At that time the site underwent severe damage from parachute mines and incendiary bombs.

From 1931 to 1973 the company occupied the 18th-century Middlesex Sessions House in Clerkenwell as its headquarters.[2]

Changes in weighing machine technology after World War II led to the closure of the foundry, the introduction of load cells and electronic weighing with the simultaneous gradual disappearance of purely mechanical devices.

After almost a century of national and international expansion the company was taken over by GEC in 1979. Keith Hodgkinson, managing director at the time, completed the turn-around from mechanical to electronic weighing with a complete overhaul of the product range of retail scales and industrial platform scales. In 1993 GEC took over the Dutch-based company Berkel and the Avery Berkel name was introduced. GEC Avery continued to operate as a part of the Avery Berkel Group.

In 2000, the business was in turn acquired by the US-American company Weigh-Tronix to form Avery Weigh-Tronix, Avery Berkel continued to operate as a brand of the newly created company with GEC Avery being absorbed by the Avery Berkel brand.

In 2015, the Avery museum, which had existed for almost nine decades, was closed and the collection dispersed.[3][4]

Acquisitions[edit]

The company has made serval large acquisition over the years that help contribute to its large size.

  • 1895 James Watt & Co
  • 1899 Parnall & Sons Ltd.
  • 1920/1928 Southall and Smith Ltd.
  • 1920 Saml. Denison & Son Ltd. (name changed to Avery-Denison Ltd. in 1970)
  • 1925 Oertling Ltd.
  • 1931 The Tan Sad Chair Co. (1931) Ltd.
  • 1932 Avery-Hardoll Ltd.
  • 1953/1976 Pump Maintenance Ltd.
  • 1959 Geo Driver & Son Ltd.; merged in 1966 with Southall and Smith Ltd. to form Driver Southall Ltd.
  • 1968 Stanton Redcroft Ltd.
  • 1973 Telomex Ltd.

At some point, the company owned Haseley Manor, in Warwickshire.

See also[edit]

  • Roberval Balance
  • Weighbridge

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hipkins died on the Titanic in 1912.
  2. ^ Temple, Philip, ed. (2008). "Clerkenwell Green". South and East Clerkenwell. Survey of London. 46. New Haven, London: English Heritage. pp. 86–114. ISBN 9780300137279.
  3. ^ Griffin, Jon (7 January 2015). "Avery Historical Museum closes as hunt is on for new home". birminghampost. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Avery Museum". Stanton Instruments. Retrieved 22 April 2020.

Literature[edit]

  • Ernest Pendarves Leigh-Bennett, Weighing the World: an impression after two hundred years of the past history of an English house of business, and of its present activities and influence throughout the world of weighing, 1730-1930, Birmingham, 1930
  • Walter Keith Vernon Gale, Soho Foundry, Birmingham, 1948
  • Monopolies and Mergers Commission, The General Electric Company Limited and Averys Limited: a report on the proposed merger, London, 1979, ISBN 0-10-176530-4
  • L H Broadbent, "The Avery Business (1730-1918)", W & T Avery, Birmingham, 1949

External links[edit]

  • www.averyweigh-tronix.com Corporate website
  • Avery Chronology of the Avery company
  • The Soho Foundry History of the company's main site
  • The General Electric Company Limited and Averys Limited Chapter One of The General Electric Company Limited and Averys Limited: A Report on the Proposed Merger
  • Averys Limited Chapter Four of The General Electric Company Limited and Averys Limited: A Report on the Proposed Merger
  • Names on Weights A list of manufacturers whose names appears on British weights

See also[edit]

  • Sir William Beilby Avery