Company History
Redfearn & Bedford
Siddall & Hilton
Redfearn & Bedford founded by Richard Redfearn & 1895
Sam Bedford, at Kirklees Iron Works, Brighouse. Specialist
Wire-Drawing
2
Siddall & Hilton Ltd founded by Rowland Siddall & Thomas Hilton, Sowerby Bridge. Bedstead and woven wire mattress manufacturer
3
blank
4
Operating 17 manufacturing & showroom premises around the UK and Dublin
5
Relocated to Calder Wire Mills, Birds Royd, Brighouse
6
Supplied beds to field and convalescent hospitals
7
Death of Richard Redfearn
8
Death of Thomas Hilton
9
Death of Samuel Bedford
10
Death of Rowland Siddall
11
Acquired Calder Wire Mills site (Factory ‘A’) from The Beacon Dyeing Co. Ltd
12
Set up Subsidiary to supply hospital beds, & doctors’ surgery furniture for the new NHS (later became Sidhil Ltd & Medequip Ltd)
13
blank
14
blank
15
blank
blank
blank
Acquired vacant land at the top of the site on Birds Royd Lane from Hopkinson & Shore Ltd
Pioneered the ‘Atlas Bronze’ lacquer coating for wire coathangers. Now Europe’s largest coathanger manufacturer
Wire Products (Brighouse) Ltd relocated & merged 1978 with Redfearn & Bedford. Factory Extended. Renamed Redfearns Wire Products Ltd.
Acquired Floral Wire Products Ltd. Acquired Tower Works (Factory ‘B’) from Kent Introl Ltd.
Acquired 1st EVG mesh welding machine – (GR85)
Acquired 2nd EVG mesh welding machine
Acquired Direct Wire Ties Ltd, Forpak Ltd & welding 1997 wire reels division of National Standard Co.
Acquired the assets of the Recoil Spring Company
Acquired 3rd EVG mesh welding machine – (an ATT/102)
Acquired 4th EVG mesh welding machine – The largest mesh machine in the world
Acquired 5th EVG mesh welding machine
Capacity scaled back: 1st EVG mesh welding machine – (GR85) sold to a company in Brazil
Management Buy-Out – Company acquired from the 4th Gen. Siddall family by Mantis Holdings Ltd
Site Acquired by Mantis Investments Ltd Divested Container Handles & Cut Lengths Departments
Divested Furniture Springs Department
Second MBO – Business & Site Acquired by Blackfish Enterprises Ltd
125th Anniversary (impacted by 2020
Covid-19 pandemic)
Invested in a 5th EVG welding machine & expanded the workforce by 25%
