Photographs: Gloster Saro later Lairds Anglesey Ltd. of Beaumaris

PHOTOGRAPHS: Gloster Saro later Lairds Anglesey Ltd. of Beaumaris.

The engineering company Laird (Anglesey) Ltd was formed [c. 1968] incorporating the Beaumaris and Llangefni factories of Saunders-Roe (SARO) and the Birkenhead shipbuilders Cammell Laird. SARO originated as a boatbuilding company and became involved in aircraft manufacture during the Second World War as part of the Gloster Aircraft Company. At this time the company opened a factory at Fryars in Llanfaes, Anglesey, converting and maintaining Catalina flying boats and launching them onto Fryars Bay. The company later moved into other military hardware and civilian vehicles. SARO and Laird contracts included amphibious and other marine craft, tanks, radar equipment, bridges, trackways, buses, tankers, containers, railway wagons, refuse collection vehicles, and masts for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The company, which is now (2003) known as FAUN Municipal Vehicles Ltd., took and collected a considerable number of photographs to record its activities.

Dim cyfyngiadau/ No Restrictions

Faun Municipal Vehicles, Ltd., Llangefni

Os gwelwch yn dda archebwch y dogfenau gan ddefnyddio y rhif cyfeirnod amgen (lle ddarperidd) / Please order documents using the alternative reference number (where provided)

Mae copiau clawr caled o`r catalogau ar gael yn Archifau Ynys Môn ac yn y Gofrestr Cenedlaethol Archifau. Polisi Archifau Ynys Môn yw catalogio yn iaith y ddogfen./Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives and the National Register of Archives. It is the policy of Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives to catalogue in the language of the document.

Cyflwr da /Good condition

Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

Mae'r holl gofnodiadau sy'n cydymffurfio â pholisi casglu Swyddfa Gofnodi Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn wedi eu cadw /All records which meet the collection policy of the Anglesey Archives have been retained.

The images were most likely collected for a brochure produced in 1968. They are similar to the collection WDAA.

Ni ddisgwylir croniadau/Accruals are not expected

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