Birlec Ltd. was an English manufacturer of industrial electric furnaces. Birlec was founded in 1927, as the Birmingham Electric Furnace Company, establishing a factory at Tyburn Road,
Erdington
Erdington is a suburb and ward of Birmingham in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Warwickshire and located northeast of central Birmingham, bordering Sutton Coldfield. It was also a council constituency, managed by its o ...
,
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1. ...
. In 1954, Birlec's owner the
Mond Nickel Company
The Mond Nickel Company Limited was a United Kingdom-based mining company, formed on September 20, 1900, licensed in Canada to carry on business in the province of Ontario, from October 16, 1900. The firm was founded by Ludwig Mond (1839-1909) to ...
sold the company to
Associated Electrical Industries.
[''Times'', 25 September 1954] As part of its expansion plans, AEI relocated Birlec to a new factory at
Aldridge
Aldridge is an industrial town in the Walsall borough, West Midlands, England. It is historically a village that was part of Staffordshire until 1974. The town is from Brownhills, from Walsall, from Sutton Coldfield and from Lichfield. ...
,
Staffordshire during the late 1950s. Some of the largest
electric arc furnace
An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc.
Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to ...
s produced by Birlec had a smelting capacity of over 100 tons. Birlec along with the rest of AEI, was taken over by
GEC in 1967.
References
External links
* http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Birmingham_Electric_Furnaces
Engineering companies of England
Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Staffordshire
General Electric Company
Associated Electrical Industries
1927 establishments in England
Manufacturing companies established in 1927
1967 disestablishments in England
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1967
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