Cookes Explosives Ltd

Sectors:

  • Chemical production Explosives & fuses production

Notes:

Established by Cooke family. 1916 acquired Miners Safety Explosive Co Ltd, established in 1888 to make ammonite explosives at Stanford le Hope, Essex. Production transferred to Penrhyndeudraeth. By 1950 a subsidiary of ICI operating as an identifiable unit but subsequently subsumed into ICI's Nobel Division

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