 Some of the remaining buildings at the Siemens Brothers site in Woolwich | |
| Industry | electrical industry  |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1865 |
| Headquarters | , United Kingdom |
| Parent | Siemens |
Siemens Brothers and Company Limited was an electrical engineering design and manufacturing business in London, England. It was first established as a branch[note 1] in 1858 by a brother of the founder of the German electrical engineering firm Siemens & Halske. The principal works were at Woolwich where cables and light-current electrical apparatus were produced from 1863 until 1968. The site between the Thames Barrier and Woolwich Dockyard has retained several buildings of historic interest.[1][2] New works were built at Stafford in 1903 and Dalston in 1908.
During World War I Siemens Brothers was bought by a British consortium because most of its ownership was in the hands of enemy aliens; see Graces Guide to British Industrial History.[3]
Siemens Brothers and Company Limited was bought by Associated Electrical Industries in 1955. At that time its business was described as follows: manufacture sale and installation of submarine and land cables, overhead telegraph, telephone and power transmission lines, public and private telephone exchanges and carrier transmission equipment for telephone lines and marine radio and signalling equipment. Through subsidiaries it was engaged in the manufacture of lamps of all kinds, miscellaneous electrical equipment and electrical railway signals.[4]
Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page).
- ^ Saint & Guillery, The Survey of London vol. 48: Woolwich, Yale, 2012 (online PDF, pp. 44-53).
- ^ Siemens Woolwich site notes, on greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.co.uk (including a map of all buildings and their year of completion).
- ^ "Siemens Brothers and Co - Graces Guide".
- ^ letter from directors to the company's shareholders re AEI offer, December 1954