Title
Record of Cable Failures or Breakdowns
Reference
2017-2019
Production date
1931 - 1940
Creator
- British Insulated Callenders Cables plcBiographyBiography
British Insulated Callenders Cables plc, known as BICC from 1975, was a British cable manufacturer and construction company, formed in 1945 by the merger of two long established cable firms, Callender's Cable & Construction Company Limited and British Insulated Cables Ltd. The 1945 merger of Callenders Cable and Construction Co with British Insulated Cables Ltd was prefigured by their joint research organisation, Cable Research, established in 1926.
British Insulated Callenders Cables acquired a number of other cable manufacturing companies until, by the 1970s, the firm had UK works at Erith, Prescot, Kirkby, Leyton, Helsby, Leigh, Melling, Wrexham, Blackley, Belfast and Huyton (now Hi-Wire UK Ltd) making electric power cables, telecommunications cables and metals.The company was renamed BICC Ltd in 1975.
Scope and Content
Binder of faults and breakdowns both nationally and internationally for cabling manufactured by the company containing the following details; date of entry into binder; location; type of fault or breakdown of equipment; cause of the resulting fault and notes as to supplier of installer of cable or equipment responsible for the fault or breakdown.
Physical description
Good
Language
English
Archival history
Donated by Frances Verne
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- British Insulated Callenders Cables plcBiographyBiography
British Insulated Callenders Cables plc, known as BICC from 1975, was a British cable manufacturer and construction company, formed in 1945 by the merger of two long established cable firms, Callender's Cable & Construction Company Limited and British Insulated Cables Ltd. The 1945 merger of Callenders Cable and Construction Co with British Insulated Cables Ltd was prefigured by their joint research organisation, Cable Research, established in 1926.
British Insulated Callenders Cables acquired a number of other cable manufacturing companies until, by the 1970s, the firm had UK works at Erith, Prescot, Kirkby, Leyton, Helsby, Leigh, Melling, Wrexham, Blackley, Belfast and Huyton (now Hi-Wire UK Ltd) making electric power cables, telecommunications cables and metals.The company was renamed BICC Ltd in 1975.
Subject
Electricity
Cable industry
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
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