Birlec
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| industry = Furnaces
| fate = Takeover by GEC in 1967
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| founded = 1927 as Birmingham Electric Furnace Company
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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, Birmingham. In 1954, Birlec's owner the Mond Nickel Company 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, Staffordshire during the late 1950s. Some of the largest electric arc furnaces 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.
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External links
- http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Birmingham_Electric_Furnaces
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Category:Engineering companies of England
Category:Defunct manufacturing companies of England
Category:Companies based in Staffordshire
Category:General Electric Company
Category:Associated Electrical Industries
Category:1927 establishments in England
Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1927
Category:1967 disestablishments in England
Category:Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1967
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