The origins of Peerless Gas Controls Ltd., can be traced back to Victorian Birmingham of the Eighteen Nineties. The company was known as M. Howlett and Co Ltd. and in the Twentieth Century it was located in Hockley, Birmingham.
It became one of the largest UK manufactures of an extensive range of Gas Controls employing a work force of some Five Hundred People. In due course the company became part of the Radiation Group of Companies with factories dedicated to the manufacture of Gas Appliances throughout the UK.
The company was forced to re-locate when a fl y over for the arterial road on which the company was situated was planned. Subsequently the company moved to Thimblemill Road Aston and was known as Radiation Gas Controls and Radiation Fires Ltd.The Radiation Group was bought by TI (Tube Investments) Group and became known as TI Gas Controls Ltd.
Production continued on the Thimblemill site until 1979 when TI sold the company to Peerless Stampings Ltd. Peerless Stampings Ltd. had been the largest supplier of brass forgings to Howletts, Radiation and TI Gas Controls respectively. After the purchase of the company Peerless Stampings moved it to their site at Priory Road also in Aston. |
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This enabled the existing management team and many of the workers to stay with the company.
In 1985 the management team purchased the company renaming it Peerless Gas Controls and relocated to Prichett Street, again in Aston. Besides the production of traditional brass based controls the company specialised in the design and manufacture of aluminum push button valves and aluminum solenoid bodies.
Peerless Gas Controls became a supplier to many of the major appliance manufacturers in both the UK and Europe. Peerless was moved to Tower Street Newtown in the early 1990’s to reside with a sister company. Where Peerless continued to manufacture a full range of gas controls.
Ownership changed in 2001 and due to expansion Peerless have relocated to a larger factor in Flintshire. Where under the current ownership the company is rapidly growing and broadening it’s product and customer base. |
