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Screwfix Direct Limited, trading as Screwfix, is a retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products based in the United Kingdom. [6] Founded in 1979 as the Woodscrew Supply Company, the company was acquired in July 1999 by Kingfisher plc , which also owns B&Q , and is listed on the London Stock Exchange .
Tyrolean may refer to: Anything from Tyrol (state) (Austria), South Tyrol (Italy) or the historical County of Tyrol or region of Tyrol; Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car; Tyrolean Airways; Tyrolean hat; Tyrolean traverse, mountaineering manoeuvre; Tyrolean Hound; A type of cement render, applied by a hand-operated machine
Head Wrightson was a big heavy industrial firm based at Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England.It specialised in the manufacture of large industrial products such as fractional distillation columns, which sometimes needed special transport to get them to site.
The company was led by Gerry Murphy from December 2002 to November 2007. [18] In January 2008, Kingfisher appointed Ian Cheshire as group chief executive. [ 18 ] Cheshire was formerly B&Q 's chief executive; his B&Q role was taken over in April 2009, by Euan Sutherland , who also headed up the United Kingdom division of Kingfisher.
The business was relocated to Brooklyn in 1884 and took the name J.H. Williams & Co in 1887. The company was one of the first to offer mass-produced drop-forged hand tools. [3] A second factory was opened in Buffalo, New York in 1914, now the site of General Motors' Tonawanda Engine plant. [4] The company was acquired by Snap-on in 1993.
Toolstation was formed in February 2003 by Mark Goddard-Watts, one of the founding family members of Screwfix Direct. [3] In 2012 Goddard-Watts sold his shares to Travis Perkins plc. [4] [5] [6] A distribution centre in Middleton, Greater Manchester opened in August 2018. [7] In 2019 Toolstation opened their 400th store, in Balham. [8]
The Hermann Weihrauch company was founded in 1899 in Zella-Mehlis, the same small German town where several other famous gun manufacturers such as Walther and Anschütz also began. Hermann Weihrauch, Sr. was well known for making hunting rifles. His three sons, Otto, Werner, and Hermann, Jr., soon joined the family-based company.
Diamond Queen traction engine, manufactured by Charles Burrell & Sons, 1897. Charles Burrell built the company's first steam engine in 1848. Initially like most other manufacturers they built portable engines but they gradually moved into self-moving agricultural engines and later engines built specifically for road transport.