| 词条 | Calders & Grandidge |
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Calders & Grandidge is a timber manufacturing company in Boston, Lincolnshire that is the UK's largest (and main) manufacturer of wooden telegraph and (electricity) transmission posts. The company has a Royal Warrant. HistoryCalders Ltd was developed by Sir James Charles Calder CBE (28 December 1869- 22 August 1962)[1] of Milnathort, who was knighted in the 1921 Birthday Honours; he died in 1962 aged 92; he was Timber Controller at the Timber Supply Department of the Board of Trade from 1919–20; he was a friend of the American ambassador, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and his son; from 1940-41 he was Director of Home Timber Production. A site in Boston was established in 1896, and moved to the 26-acre London Road site in the 1930s. Calders Ltd was incorporated on 3 February 1919 at Dunkeld in Scotland; the company was formed to acquire the business of Sir James Calder's grandfather, which was formed in 1830, and another company George Wood & Sons of Brandon, Suffolk. It made railway sleepers for the Railway Executive (British Rail). In 1945 the company took over James Grandidge Ltd, forming Calders & Grandidge on 24 March 1959.[2] In 1986, the company was awarded a Royal Warrant[3] for Preserved Timber Fencing. In the 1980s it was a main supplier of wooden joists and rafters for house builders, known as the Calders system. OwnershipOn 3 May 1948, Calders Ltd was floated on the London Stock Exchange.[4] It was bought by the multi-national French construction products company Saint-Gobain. Products
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References1. ^[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp80109/sir-james-charles-calder National Portrait Gallery] 2. ^[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00623941 Companies House] 3. ^[https://www.caldersdirect.com/ Calders Direct] 4. ^Times, 5 December 1950, page 9 External links
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