Building firm moving to Rushden

A new £500,000 plant capable of producing 2,500 factory made homes a year is to be built on a seven acre site on the Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate at Rushden.

The factory, one of the Taylor Woodrow-Anglia Ltd. group, will probably need an initial labour force of 100, which may rise to 200 eventually.

The firm decided to expand to Rushden after negotiations with the Board of Trade and Rushden Urban Council.

And when the firm officially announced the move the clerk of Rushden Urban Council, Mr. A G. Crowdy, said he was sure the council would be delighted. It was just what Rushden needed.

It was not always certain that the factory would be coming to Rushden. There were alternative towns in mind, Kettering being one.

Next Month

Work on the new plant will start next month and it should be operational in the New Year. One of its first jobs will be to provide components for a 1,000 homes scheme in Haringey which will cost over £5 million.

Components produced in the firm’s industrialised building factories weigh up to eight tons each. They include wall units, floor slabs, refuse disposal chutes and stair flights.

External wall units are transported with door and window frames cast in and painted, windows glazed and electrical wiring conduits and thermal insulation layers built in.

£500,000 Factory Will Be Opened in The New Year

Taylor Woodrow-Anglian is forging ahead with its new £500,000 plant on Rushden’s Sanders Lodge industrial estate and is expected to be operational early in the New Year.

The firm supplies industrialised building components for housing schemes and a spokesman said that “very good progress” was being made on the new factory.

A labour force of about 100, possibly rising to 200 in due course, is to be employed and most of these are likely to be recruited locally and trained in the new skills required for industrialised buildings

First Job

One of the factory’s first commitments will be to supply components for a five and a half million pound housing scheme for Harringay Borough Council, London.

The components leave the premises in a near finished state ready for erection. External wall units are transported with door and window frames cast in and painted, windows glazed and electrical wiring conduits and thermal insulation layers built in.

M.P. is to Open New £500,000 Factory at Rushden on Monday

The new Rushden Factory of Taylor Woodrow-Anglian Ltd, on the Sanders Lodge industrial estate is to be formerly opened by Mr. Harry Howarth, MP for the Wellingborough Division, on Monday.

Mr. Howarth will unveil a commemorative plaque and inaugurate dispatch of the factory’s first components.

The £500,000 factory, the company’s fourth, will ultimately be capable of producing 2,500 homes a year, both of the two storey and multi-storey types, and will cater for a large area, including North London, Yorkshire and the North-West.

M.P. opens new £500,000 plant at Rushden

The new £500,000 industrialised building factory which covers seven acres of Rushden’s Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate was officially opened this week by Wellingborough Divisional MP Mr. Harry Howarth.

The factory, designed and in operation within six months, is the fourth and largest in the country belonging to Taylor Woodrow-Anglian Ltd, and is one of the most advanced plants of its type in the world.

It will have an eventual capacity of complete components for 2,500 homes a year using streamlined industrialised building methods.

The factory, the first on the new estate contains almost 60,000 square feet of production area and initially seventy people have been employed, locally recruited and now fully trained for their work.

Guests at the opening when Mr. Howarth gave the instructions for the dispatch of the first lorry load of components saw how precast concrete components dispatched throughout the country.