Redditch is known for the Needle Industries, but it also embraced the Industrial Revolution and diversified into a wide range of Manufacturing Industries. This gallery list some of the manufacturing organisation who have operated in the town.
The Royal Enfield brand is known the world over. Having started making bicycles at the turn of the 20th century, RE-branded motorcycles are still made today in India.
Redditch is known the world over for the manufacture of needles and fishing tackle, and the Forge Mill Needle Museum is the recognised source of information on these industries.
The term “The Batteries” refers to the several battery manufacturers who operated in Redditch over the years.ALCAD is probably the best-known of these organisations.
Another organisation started as a “Shadow Factory” to support the WW2 war effort the company still operatestoday as Mettis Aerospace on the same site build specifically for HDA.
Growing out out the computer department, ISTEL expaded of an independent Information Technology and Communication Consultancy and in the 1980s was the largest private employer in the town.
