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A post on the Birmingham History Forum refers to Pressed Steel Fisher having a boat which they kept close to the Kingsbury Road Bridge which has a Leyland Commodore diesel engine which was used by the apprentices there. Is there any record of its fate ?

 

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17 minutes ago, MtB said:

They used to press body panels for BMC cars IIRC. Mini Minor, Morris 1000, A35/A40, Morris Oxford/Austin Cambridge, that sort of era. Is that right? 

 

 

 

Yes, but I think much more recent than that. As far as I know they were part of BMC. You used to transporters with "white" bodies on going from Swindon to Cowley. Probably to Longbridge as well but I never saw that.

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17 minutes ago, MtB said:

They used to press body panels for BMC cars IIRC. Mini Minor, Morris 1000, A35/A40, Morris Oxford/Austin Cambridge, that sort of era. Is that right? 

 

 

Yes, they also used produce stainless steel kitchen sink tops. I remember my parents had one.  

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The Pressed Steel Company was acquired by BMC in 1965 and in 1968 was merged with their body-building subsidiary Fisher and Ludlow, acquired in 1953, whose plant was at Castle Bromwich. PSF also had plants at Cowley and Swindon. Presumably the boat was associated with the Castle Bromwich plant, which is now part of the Jaguar factory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressed_Steel_Company

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_and_Ludlow

 

5 hours ago, Heartland said:

Is there any record of its fate ?

Is it likely that it will have survived that much longer than the car body panels the company made back in the 60s/70s?

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2 hours ago, Ray T said:

Pressed Steel also had a factory in Mile Lane Coventry.

 

Taxi production is now in China.

 

I thought that they were made near Rugby!

 

The London Taxi Company - Ansty Park

 

22 hours ago, David Mack said:

The Pressed Steel Company was acquired by BMC in 1965 and in 1968 was merged with their body-building subsidiary Fisher and Ludlow, acquired in 1953, whose plant was at Castle Bromwich. PSF also had plants at Cowley and Swindon. Presumably the boat was associated with the Castle Bromwich plant, which is now part of the Jaguar factory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressed_Steel_Company

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_and_Ludlow

 

Is it likely that it will have survived that much longer than the car body panels the company made back in the 60s/70s?

 

The PSF factory in Oxford is now the location of the BMW mini production facility. The Swindon factory, also now owned by BMW, make the Mini body panels.

 

 

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11 hours ago, Ray T said:

Taxi production is now in China.

Their website says that vehicles have been produced at Ansty Park since 2017. 

 

9 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

 

I thought that they were made near Rugby!

Ansty Park is on the northern edge of Coventry.

Going back to the original post - if the boat had a Commodore engine it would probably have been built in the 1960's - I'm fairly certain production of that engine ended in the very early '70's.

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