Hampshire IAS – Pirelli General Cable Works
Underhill Centre St. John’s Road, Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire, United KingdomThe date was January 20, 1914, when Italian manufacturer Pirelli signed the contract to open a factory in the UK choosing Southampton as its UK headquarters. A key player for decades thereafter the factory played a key role during the Second World War supplying three-and-a-half million miles of wire to the Royal Corps of Signals…