C.R.O Carlux Ltd

Thanks Martin, not surprising really!

https://www.companysearchesmadesimple.com/company/uk/00336268/carlux-electrical-services-limited/

Hello again Ollie. Their wartime main office was at 17 Nicholas St, Chester but in 1946 seems to have been at 66 Castle Buildings, Bridge St. At that time, the Electrical Stores and Installation Dept was at 2 Pepper St and their showroom was at 52, Bridge St. The latter is now a coffee shop. They also had a wartime works at Weaver St, Saltney. That street is not on the A-Z but there are factory buildings of wartime vintage along the bank of the Dee. As a matter of interest, Anchor Motors which produced Wellington and Lancaster sub-assemblies for the Vickers factory at Broughton was also in Pepper St.
Dave Smith

Thank you. Do you know where their offices where?

Notes I took from a company brochure which was mainly about the company’s post-war role iin electrical contracting and refrigeration etc in and around Chester.

Thank you. Where did you find this information?

Their full title was Carlux Electrical Services Ltd and they operated under an MAP contract to provide electrical work for a number of CROs, including Martin Hearn Ltd, Cunliffe Owen, Lancs Aircraft Corp, Scottish Aviation and Air Dispatch Ltd. This necessitated setting up 66 main and sub-depots all over the UK. The company’s main base was in Chester and in 1939 they were called upon to undertake the electrical side of repair and installation for all types of war-damaged aircraft sent to Martin Hearn at Hooton Park. The chief aircraft type involved was the Anson, but further country-wide contracts resulted in all major British and American-built aircraft being handled. By the war’s end, Carlux had electrically reconditioned 7,537 aircraft of all types. I imagine that the company doesn’t appear in RAF Training and Support Units because they didn’t actually repair airframes.