After Cox's Death
The majority of the GWR King Class locomotives were withdrawn late in 1962, and ten were allocated to Cox and Danks for disposal (Portraits of Kings; B Holden & K Leech, Moorland Publishing Co.Ltd 1979). On April 1 1970 the company, by then part of the Metal Industries wing of Thorn Electrical Industries, became a subsidiary of the Six Hundred Metal Holdings group owned by the George Cohen '600' Group.
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