User:Bob Duis/sandbox

This is mostly bullshit.

The Aluminium Company Of Canada was created when the Securities Exchange Commission broke up the Aluminum Company of America's "monopoly" giving the Canadian company most of the parent company's "foreign" assets.

Northern had rolling mills in both Banbury and Rogerstone.

After a lengthy corporate identity study Alcan Aluminium Limited was created as the holding company in the late 1950s. (There was an awful; lot of "Seamist Green" paint int the warehouse in Chute des Passes when I worked there in 1960.)

The Aluminium Company of Canada was responsible for Canadian operations, including Arvida, Kitimat, Shawinigan Falls and Kingston.

In addition to Northern, one of three laboratories under Aluminium Laboratories Limited was located across the Southam Road from Northern. Eric Ashley was the Northern plant manager in the early 50s. Eric? Wordsworth, mayor of Banbury, was a lab employee at that time.

During the war, only one German bomb came anywhere near the plant. It landed, unexploded, on a phantom plant (a matching set of rooftops, located a few miles north of the actual plant). Ashley had it mounted in his office.