{"id":1050,"date":"2026-05-09T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/?page_id=1050"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:52:39","slug":"tc-redditch-industrial-and-commercial-gallery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/?page_id=1050","title":{"rendered":"IC – Redditch Industrial And Commercial Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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IC – Manufacturers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – Hymatic And Hydrovane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hymatic Engineering was founded at the outbreak of WW2 and has grown steadily ever since to service a wide range of industries.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – The Royal Enfield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – Herbert Terry’s<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbert Terry started making food ingredients but diverisfied into a wide range of engineering products including the famous Anglepoise lamps. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – Needle & Fishing Tackle Industries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – The Batteries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – High Duty Alloys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – The BSA In Redditch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although primarily a Birmingham firm, over the years BSA has made motorcycles, armaments and machine tools in Redditch. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – ISTEL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IC – Transport<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many towns, transport enabled Redditch to grow. Initially with the toll roads, then the canals and finally the railways. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Museum Galleries IC – Manufacturers 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. Go To Gallery IC – Hymatic And Hydrovane Hymatic Engineering was founded at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}