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Punchy Dan:
I thought Wilcox bought seadyke but where did Steve castle fit in ? And why did York finish ? Is it coincidence that the above all had very similar design/ profiles ?Wilcox were the first successful welded aluminium bodies developed in the late 1950’s at Peterborough by the welding and engineering company E.M.Wilcox Ltd, whose roots went right back to the early 1900’s.
Seadyke were initially building riveted body designs at Wisbech, and were taken over by the Wilcox Group.
Stevecastle was literally a random trading name bought by the Wilcox family, and was used by them to produce really high quality bespoke welded aluminium bodies when they moved to Oundle in the 1970’s. They were produced until 1995.
Thank you ,that explains why they were all such good quality similar builds .