Hi. Today i have seen a large 1930s master clock that came out of the C & J Hampton Ouse Rd Factory. It is one of the lots at the next auction at Paul Beighton Auctioneers Ltd. It is over 5ft high and has the factory name on it. Apparently it regulated all the clocks throughout the factory. Just wondering if anyone knows when the factory closed or even remember seeing it working in the factory offices.

the factory is not closed it had a name change at various times and now owned i think by an american co.still make the best vices you can buy plus other tools or at least they did up to a couple of years ago.

didnt the factory become record ridgeway at one point, though i do not know what it may be called now. My dad work at c & j hampton in the 1960s

The company now is Irwin Industral Tools, a division of Newell Rubbemaid, as posted above, an American group. The last tool that they made on site was the wood chisel, that was up to 2005, when they started buying blades in and assembling them. All their tools now, as far as i know, are made outside of the company and imported, and not as good as the original Record tools.
I worked there for 32 years and saw a lot of changes in the company. I think that only some of the offices at the front are used by Irwin Industrial now. Not sure about the chisel dept'.