Curly
master brummie
Anybody familiar with the old factories in Tyburn Road and in particular, the one which straddles the Birmingham & Fazeley canal LINK, to the left of the entrance to Gravelly Industrial Park.
There is currently a discussion about it over in a forum on canalworld.net LINK and from the scant information on the internet, there are suggestions that it was either BIP Tools Ltd OR Birlec (or BEF Ltd), and later, a Rover Training facility. One British Waterways archive does quote Birlec.
Now, I thought Birlec had a factory on the corner of Wood Lane/Bromford Lane, LINK overlooking the petrol storage facility and backing onto the canal.
Did Birlec have two sites in the area? Where was BIP Tools, then?
Can anyone clarify what company occupied this site?
Thks
There is currently a discussion about it over in a forum on canalworld.net LINK and from the scant information on the internet, there are suggestions that it was either BIP Tools Ltd OR Birlec (or BEF Ltd), and later, a Rover Training facility. One British Waterways archive does quote Birlec.
Now, I thought Birlec had a factory on the corner of Wood Lane/Bromford Lane, LINK overlooking the petrol storage facility and backing onto the canal.
Did Birlec have two sites in the area? Where was BIP Tools, then?
Can anyone clarify what company occupied this site?
Thks