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Frederick Frank Brundle, representing the third generation
of the family, entered the business in 1935 after spending six
months in Belgium at a steel and wire nail works. The war years
interrupted his career in the company and he rejoined later in
partnership with Charles Henry, Frank's youngest brother. Charles
retired in 1960 and Frederick in 1984 when his son Richard assumed
sole control.
Each generation of the family will have had their fair share
of management problems that is the nature of business. Arguably,
however, Richard Brundle, who joined the firm in 1956 and is
now the current proprietor, was to face some of the biggest challenges.
During the 1950's the trade saw almost overnight changes in
its traditional markets. The dairies and other similar commercial
users abandoned horses in favour of electric floats. Plastics,
cardboard and palletisation were introduced which effectively
killed off the use of wooden cases.
Changing the nature of the business was vital, and a number
of new product lines were tested and evaluated. It wasn't long
before the company had moved into mild steel wires and welded
mesh.
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Richard Brundle MBE and
son Michael
Following this early success the company has continued its
policy of careful product selection and diversification and has
gone from strength to strength.
Today, FH Brundle can proudly claim to be leading wholesale
suppliers in their product ranges - but still maintains those
traditional values first established back in 1889.
To maintain the personal touch, the business has always delivered
on their own fleet of trucks. Today with branches at Birmingham,
Nottingham, Southampton, St Helens and Edinburgh we deliver to
most areas of the country. Brundle lorries can be seen in Bristol
and Brighouse, Dover and Doncaster, Leeds and London - wherever
we have customers, the goods are delivered fast.
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