Nuffield Tools and Gauges
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Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited in England was a designer and manufacturer of specialised mass production plant for Morris Motors Limited and its subsidiaries. It also supplied outside customers.
Morris Motors Tools and Gauges branch
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Formerly a branch activity within Morris Motors a separate company was incorporated and named Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited to take over that branch business as of 31 December 1942. This followed acquisition of the Cheylesmore Coventry building. Once the home of the Swift Cycle Company and then in use as a factory making shells it had been badly damaged by repeated enemy action in 1940-1941.
Operations
[edit]Design and manufacture of plant
[edit]Designer and manufacturer of special-purpose machine tools and follow-through press tools including fixtures and jigs as well as small tools and gauges
Manufacture of prototypes
[edit]They also made prototype parts for any mechanism required.
Dissolution
[edit]Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited was dissolved in 1974.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- The Papers of Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited, Reference GB 0152 MSS.226/NT. Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library. This collection forms part of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Archive.
- 1942 establishments in England
- Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1974
- Coventry motor companies
- Defunct companies based in the West Midlands (county)
- Defunct engineering companies of the United Kingdom
- Defunct manufacturing companies of England
- British companies established in 1942
- Manufacturing companies established in 1942
- 1974 disestablishments in England