British Monorail, Armytage Industrial Estate, Sherwood Road - 5 March 1985

British Monorail, Armytage Industrial Estate, Sherwood Road - 5 March 1985

Monorail Sherwood Road, Artmytage Industrrial Estate, Brighouse.and of Wren Works, Chadderton, Oldham. (1958)

Maker of automatic transfer and overhead handling equipment under licence from the American MonoRail Company of Cleveland, USA

The company was one of the first to construct new premises on the then new Armytage Road Indusytrial Estate.

1957 Control of the company was acquired by a group of investors from Dodd Investment of Oldham for a "nominal sum"; American MonoRail Company retained 20 percent of the shares in the company in return for full cooperation including drawings, patents, etc

1959 Acquired by William Morris Company of Oldham.

1961 Opened a subsidiary in South Africa with intention of building a factory

1974 A -ton SWL fully flameproofed monorail system used at Crompton Parkinson.Armytage Ind Estate 1961 1961

The large building to the left is the Monorail property.

 

British Monorail Sherwood Road LOW RES burnt out1 02.08.2018

Shown here on 2 August 2018 after a very serious fire, the site will have to be rebuilt

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