There's a brief on part of this company's history in this site.......
http://www.hillfields.org.uk/History/Car_history/Index.htm
Did Hills PDC products have a distinctive trade-mark or logo?
Can anyone access British Company records? I think it's still trading under
the Peugeot or Talbot operation.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "T.J. Higgins" <tjhiggin@mapapp1.iss.ingr.com>
To: "Alpines" <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:02 AM
Subject: question about rootes (fwd)
> > I have been wondering for a time whether any information existed on the
> > web about the Rootes group, but unfortunately not for the same reasons
> > as you-I am not a car collector,although my first car was in fact a
> > hillman imp. My reasons for finding out more about Rootes are purely
> > personal. Although I have lived in Norway for the past 25 years I was
> > brought up in Solihull . My father and his brother had two factories,
> > one in Cateswell Rd Hall Green Birmingham and one in Coventry. The name
> > was Hills Precision Die Castings Ltd. My father Charles Hill died in
> > 1961 after they had sold out to Rootes. I came along very late in his
> > life so was only a very small child and have very little knowledge of
> > the company . They originally started out as makers of funeral
> > furnishings.=20
> > I tried to get onto the Rootes history page but I could not download =
> > the
> > file- I thought I had winzip but must ask the children to help me. If
> > you or any of your friends have heard of my fathers company please let
> > me know.
> > Yours sincerely
> > Sue Hill Forsland in Sandnesj=F8en Norway.
> > hill-forsland@c2i.net
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