Amalgamated Power Engineering

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Amalgamated Power Engineering was a British engineering holding company, created through the 1968 merger of W.H. Allen, Sons and Co (which had absorbed William Foster & Co. in 1960) and Belliss and Morcom.{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Belliss_and_Morcom|title=Belliss and Morcom|publisher=GracesGuide.co.uk|accessdate=2012-06-21}}

In 1966, the receiver of Crossley Brothers of Manchester,[http://www.crossley-motors.org.uk/history/origins.html Crossley Motors] sold the Crossley-Premier Engines and Furnival and Co businesses to Belliss and Morcom (B&M) of Birmingham, West Midlands. In 1968 B&M agreed to a merger with W.H. Allen, Sons and Co of Bedford,{{Cite web |url=http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/queens_park_timeline.htm |title=Bedford timeline |access-date=24 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215144652/http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/queens_park_timeline.htm |archive-date=15 December 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} to form Amalgamated Power Engineering (APE), 60% owned by Allen's shareholders (which included William Foster & Co.) and 40% by Belliss and Morcom; which instantly became a leading manufacturer of engines.[http://connection.ebscohost.com/content/article/1041040136.html;jsessionid=7459173F8A87EF8D095647BCCE0304A5.ehctc1 Accountancy]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 1968, APE reached agreement with Cooper-Bessemer to allow C-B to sell APE's gas treatment plant worldwide. In 1969, APE's Allen Gwynnes Pumps subsidiary acquired the industrial pumps business of Vickers plc based in Barrow in Furness.

After a difficult period in the 1970s, when due to ongoing losses APE sold a number of subsidiaries, in 1981 APE was acquired by Northern Engineering Industries plc, based in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.[http://www.nzrcranes.org/manufact.html NZR Cranes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174719/http://www.nzrcranes.org/manufact.html |date=2016-03-03 }} NEI shut most of the old central-Birmingham factories, consolidated the products around compressors, and moved B&M to Redditch. NEI itself was then acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1989.