Mitcham's 300 Factories - Music & Missiles
Channel: Mitcham Notes
Date: 2023-04-06

From the Mitcham News & Mercury, 11th January 1961, news from the local factories, which features

Morfax and the Blue Streak missile launcher

Stewart & Gray and vitreous enamalled panels for Millbank and the Ilford company's quarter mile long offices at Basildon

PYE Records and their 50% increase in production. Includes stats of copies pressed for Petula Clark, Emile Ford and Lonnie Donegan records.

OS Maps are reproduced by permission from the National Library of Scotland, reuse CC-BY
https://maps.nls.uk/view/103029291#zoom=5&lat=4219&lon=5680&layers=BT

For more on the companies mentioned, see Mitcham History Notes:

Morfax https://mitchamhistorynotes.com/2016/11/06/morfax-metal-developments-ltd/

Stewart & Gray https://mitchamhistorynotes.com/2016/11/07/stewart-gray-ltd/

Pye Records https://mitchamhistorynotes.com/2016/01/23/pye-records/