Editing Tolworth (section)

==Industry==
Apart from the MoD and DOS sites on the south side of the A3, '''Gala Cosmetics''' had a large production facility (at the start of Oakcroft Road) as did '''Andre Rubber Co'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Andre_Rubber_Co|title=Andre Rubber Co|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> (who specialised in bonding rubber to metal and made components for cars, docks, armoured fighting vehicles, hospitals, warships and diving helmets) – now the site of the Hook Rise South Industrial Park. Founded by Theodore Bernard Andre<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Theodore_Bernard_Andre|title=Theodore Bernard Andre|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> they boasted of having three acres of specialised rubber technology.

Prior to the construction of Sundial Court<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allsop.co.uk/uploads/pdf/property/property_2503_.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525102913/http://www.allsop.co.uk/uploads/pdf/property/property_2503_.pdf |archive-date=2015-05-25 |url-status=live|title=Currently Marketing (Residential) |work=Allsop}}</ref> there was a camping goods supplier – the previous building having been partially demolished due to road widening. 
'''[[Siebe Gorman]]'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Siebe,_Gorman_and_Co|title=Siebe, Gorman and Co|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> a company that developed diving and breathing equipment purchased 6 acres of land at Tolworth in 1938 – the new building was named Neptune Works, on Davis Road (off Cox Lane) and near to King George's Field – although this would probably be regarded as Chessington nowadays.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siebegorman.com/|title=Siebe Gorman|work=siebegorman.com}}</ref> Local businessman Eric Miller recalls a part-time job filling breathing masks with carbon granules at '''[[Siebe Gorman]]''' and also with the nearby '''[[J. Lyons and Co.]]''' bakery in Cox Lane.

===Hillaldam and Galleon===

'''Hillaldam Coburn'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://doorindustryjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/hillaldam-coburn-ltd-celebrate-100.html|title=The Door Industry Journal Blog: Hillaldam Coburn Ltd – Celebrate 100 Years of Manufacturing Sliding Door Gear in the UK|work=doorindustryjournal.blogspot.co.uk}}</ref> (previously known as E. Hill Aldam and Co) a sliding door gear manufacturer operated from Earlsfield before moving to Brittanic Works, Red Lion Road, Tolworth in 1959<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/E._Hill_Aldam_and_Co|title=E. Hill Aldam and Co|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> where they remained until 1989

They were a sister company of '''English Fireplaces (Wimbledon) Ltd''' set up by Ernest Hill Aldam, Kenneth Aldam and Donald Aldam using the '''Galleon''' Trade Mark. The company was established in May 1938 operating from Haslsemere Avenue, Earlsfield, SW18. In September 1953 the company resolved to purchase the former Brickworks in Tolworth as tenants in common with E Hill Aldam & Co for a cost of £30,000 being shared between the companies.<ref>Minutes of Directors meeting held on 14 September 1953</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im196003IHX-Gall.jpg|title=Galleaon Fireplaces|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> (The Tolworth Brickworks Company Ltd. had opted to be voluntarily wound up – see above). English Fireplaces and Hillaldam then set about redeveloping the site demolishing existing buildings – there had previously been buildings with 5 chimneys on the site. In 1955 the company became '''English Fireplaces (Galleon) Ltd.''' and in 1979 became '''Galleon Claygate Ltd'''. Galleon now have showrooms in the Ewell Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galleonfireplaces.co.uk/|title=Fireplaces, Stoves & Accessories in Surrey, Surbiton – Galleon Fireplaces|work=galleonfireplaces.co.uk}}</ref> The leases of cottages at 220–236 Red Lion Road were purchased in 1961 and a number of properties fronting Red Lion Road were subsequently demolished to form car parking.

===Radar===
[[Decca Radar]]'s Radar Research and Development laboratories moved to the Tolworth roundabout in the former '''Fox and Nicholl''' factory. Decca's standards department was located at 456 Ewell Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/plessey/chapter3.php|title=Plessey Heavy Radar – Chapter Three|work=woottonbridgeiow.org.uk|access-date=13 November 2013|archive-date=13 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113224637/http://www.woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/plessey/chapter3.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> Decca's well-resourced sports ground existed until recently as "Deckers" but has now become a 5-a-side football centre.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.goalsfootball.co.uk/CentreDetails.aspx?BranchId=55 |title=5 a Side Football at Goals Tolworth |access-date=15 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105220532/http://www.goalsfootball.co.uk/CentreDetails.aspx?BranchId=55 |archive-date=5 November 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

===Motor Industry===

'''Fox and Nicholl''' were a pre-war '''Lagonda''' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Lagonda|title=Lagonda|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> car specialist based adjacent to the Tolworth roundabout. '''[[HRG Engineering Company]]''' also known as '''HRG''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/HRG_Engineering_Co|title=HRG Engineering Co|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> was a British car manufacturer based in Oakcroft Road, (then Tolworth) which had been founded in 1936 by Major Edward Halford, Guy Robins and Henry Ronald Godfrey. They ceased trading in 1966 although production had finished 10 years earlier. Nearby at 243 Ewell Road and in Hollyfield Road was the '''[[Cooper Car Company]]''' founded in 1947<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Cooper_Car_Co|title=Cooper Car Co|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> – according to an article by Phil Cooper in "The Good Life" newspaper during the 1950s, F1 cars were regularly driven along the Ewell Road by '''[[Cooper Car Company]]'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegoodlifesurbiton.co.uk/|title=The Good Life – Surbiton|work=thegoodlifesurbiton.co.uk}}</ref> Other motoring connections nearby included Jack Brabham<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Jack_Brabham|title=Jack Brabham|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> whose workshop was in Chessington and '''[[AC Cars]]''' in Thames Ditton owned by (William) '''Derek Hurlock''' who lived in Long Ditton.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-derek-hurlock-1549104.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-derek-hurlock-1549104.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Jonathan | last=Wood | title=Obituary: Derek Hurlock | date=3 September 1992}}</ref>

===Aircraft and Armaments Manufacture===
'''Fox and Nicholl''' moved to wartime aircraft industry production – handling large quantities of sheet metal work, sub-assemblies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1939_Suppliers_to_the_Aircraft_Industry#F|title=1939 Suppliers to the Aircraft Industry|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> '''LF Peatty'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/L._F._Peatty|title=L. F. Peatty|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref> and '''Southborough Sheet Metal''' also manufactured parts for the [[de Havilland]] Mosquito<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Southborough_Sheet_Metal|title=Southborough Sheet Metal|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref><ref>Mosquito by C. Martin Sharp and Michael J. F. Bowyer. Published by Crecy Books in 1995</ref>

'''Nash and Thompson''' was a British engineering firm established by [[Archibald Frazer-Nash]] and [[Henry Ronald Godfrey]]. (See also HRG). They were based in Oakcroft Road and specialised in the production of hydraulically operated gun turrets for aircraft. The company was also an important manufacturer of hydraulic powered radar scanners<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Nash_and_Thompson|title=Nash and Thompson|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref>

'''United Insulator Co''' manufactured capacitors and were suppliers to the aircraft industry. They were based in Oakcroft Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/United_Insulator_Co|title=United Insulator Co|work=gracesguide.co.uk}}</ref>