Pressed Steel Company

The Pressed Steel Company ( PSC ) was a British car body manufacturer based in Cowley in Oxford. It was founded in 1926 as a joint venture between the Industrial William Morris, the Budd Corporation and an American bank. The former plant in Swindon is now owned by the BMW subsidiary Swindon Pressings Limited.

Automotive

William Morris recognized the potential of pressed car bodies, which had been developed in the USA by Budd. The new company initially supplied the Morris Motor Company (MMC ), near which the production had been built. 1935, the company became independent after the departure of Budd and produced now for more car manufacturers.

In the late 1950s, most large manufacturers in Great Britain clients Pressed Steel, including Rolls- Royce, Rootes and Standard - Triumph. PSC 1956 built a new factory in Swindon and 1961 in the Scottish Linwood, were produced in the bodies for the new Hillman Imp and the Sports Coupé Volvo P1800.

In 1966, PSC united with Jaguar Cars and the British Motor Corporation ( BMC) to the new British Motor Holdings ( BMH ). In 1968, BMH and Leyland Motors joined forces to jointly form the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BLMC ). At this time PSC was already the world's largest independent body producer and was also supplying non-UK companies with bodies and specialized machinery, including Volvo, Alfa Romeo and Hindustan Motors.

Under BLMC it came to the association of PSC and the body producing the former BMC subsidiary Fisher & Ludlow. Both jointly formed the Pressed Steel Fisher.

1994 BMW took over the Rover Group and became the owner of the press shop in Swindon. Although the major part of BMW Rover in 2000 repelled again, it retained this factory and founded the subsidiary Swindon Pressings Limited ( SPL). SPL today produces most of the body parts for the MINI, which is manufactured by the Group's subsidiary BMW Works Oxford in Cowley, the former Morris plant.

Railway industry

PSC 1947 acquired a waggon in Linwood, Scotland. Around 1960 many passenger cars for the British Railways were produced. In addition, diesel and electric trains, as well as dining car emerged. Upon completion of the modernization program, the train could be procured barely orders.

Aircraft industry

In 1960, the PSC British Executive and General Aviation Limited ( BEAGLE ), an aircraft manufacturer with branch plants in Shoreham- by-Sea and Rearsby. In 1966, the company was sold to the British government.

• Body Manufacturer
• Former company ( Oxfordshire )
• Oxford