Final Expansion
An advert from 1965.
By the late 1960's the E.C.C. had several other factories,
both in Wolverhampton and abroad.
The factory in Shaw Road. |
A control gear factory was built at Shaw Road, which
was only about 400 yards from the main works. The factory was laid out
for the flow production of contactor type control gear, to cope with the
heavy demand for power station equipment and specialised automated
process equipment. |
| Examples of some of the products
produced at Shaw Road. The display includes the range of EC/ED
contactors and star delta motor starters. |
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A display showing some of the EC
series of contactors, built into control centres. |
Another view of
the factory. |
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The factory at Fordhouse Road. |
Two associate companies were set up in a
new factory in Fordhouse Road Bushbury. The companies were E.C.C.
Moulded Breakers Limited and Federal Electric Limited. The factory
was about 1 mile from the main works and produced a complete range of
medium voltage switchgear for use in electrical distribution in
industry, hospitals, shops and houses etc. |
| Production started in 1959. The products also included
fuse switches and moulded-case air circuit breakers.
Another view of the factory. |
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| A Stablok distribution board. |
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A Quadbreak
panel-board. |
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A CDPR 600Amp, 3 pole
circuit-breaker. |
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A plug-in circuit- breaker. |
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| 15 to 100Amp moulded-case air
circuit breaker. |
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| 15 to 225Amp moulded-case air
circuit breaker. |
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125 to 400Amp moulded-case air
circuit breaker. |
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125 to 800Amp moulded-case air
circuit breaker. |
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A drawing of the South African factory. |
E.C.C. also had a factory in South Africa. The South
African company was appropriately called E.C.C. South Africa,
Proprietary Limited. A wide range of E.C.C. products were produced
there. |
This piece of
switchgear is one of the many E.C.C. products that were made in South
Africa. |
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The New Plymouth Works. |
E.C.C. Transformers & Controls Limited was set up at New
Plymouth, in New Zealand. Many types of transformer were produced there,
the key staff being trained at the Wolverhampton works. |
Arthur Gill, leading hand - L.T. winding. |
Peter Langley, Test Department. |
Jack Webster, painter. |
Lindy Vango - H.T. connecting. |
David Wright, transformer assembly. |
The transformer core building team. |
The E.C.C. also had overseas offices at
Toronto in Canada and Melbourne in Australia.
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