Graham Hampson Silk - Hampson Industries

[Daniel Silk]

Graham Hampson Silk

www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-health-news/2008/06/10/geoff-thomas-calls-for-end-to-cancer-funding-gap-65233-21050663/

www.growthcompany.co.uk/features/3607/serial-entrepreneurs.thtml

Graham Hampson Silk

"Ambitious and active Midlands-based chairman of Wolverhampton Business Airport, Hampson Silk is also involved in the film industry. He was co-executive producer of quirky British comedy 'Shooting Fish', as well as being a major shareholder at Hill & Smith, market leaders in the unglamorous world of crash barriers. His day job is at Hampson Industries, a group of aerospace engineering businesses with annual turnover approaching £100 million"

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Hampson Industries (HAMP)

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www.hampsongroup.com/

Watch the video here -

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampson_Industries

The Company was founded by Thomas Hampson-Silk in 1947 in West Bromwich as an electrical engineering concern. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1966. In 1997 it acquired Arabis Machining Group.
It expanded into the United States in 2004 with the acquisition of Texstars Inc. Further acquisitions in the United States followed in 2005 with Coast Composites Inc. and Lamsco West Inc., in 2007 with Composites Horizon Inc. and in 2008 with Odyssey Industries Inc. and Global Tooling Systems Inc. for £158m.

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Silk and Hampson Family connections -

www.ukgen.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18694

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Graham Hampson Silk's father Tom Silk

www.birminghamuk.com/wikipedia/westbromFC.htm

Chairman of West Brom FC 1988-92

[Daniel Silk]

Heres the connection between the two names -

www.ourfamhist.com/ps04/ps04_470.htm

"from John Hampson (Genes Reuntied)
At the back of my mind is a memory of my father telling me that Tom Silk (Mary Jane's son) was "adopted" or at least had an interest expressed in him by Thomas Hampson (who was his uncle) because he and his wife didn't have any children. Thomas H became a very influential business man, director of the Brockhouse Engineering company, had a chauffeur-driven Daimler, big house etc and he encouraged young Tom. I think the outcome was the establishment of Hampson Industries, electrical and aerospace, in the 1940s. The company still exists in West Bromwich."

[Daniel Silk]

More about Silk's in that area of the country here - silkfamily.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=birmingham