OUR HISTORY

In 1884, Percy Gabriel purchased a small brass foundry business in A.B. Row, Birmingham for the sum of £235 and began trading as Gabriel and Co. with 13 employees.

In the 1930's came the discovery of stainless steel. Gabriel became one of the first companies to manufacture castings in the new material, which replaced previous ones made in brass.

With the gradual expanding of the company, Gabriels began to specialise in the manufacture of fittings for tramways, buses and railways.
In addition to public transport companies in the United Kingdom, the company also began to export to Africa, Asia and South America.

Gabriel & Company celebrated their centenary celebrations in 1984, by which time their work force had grown to 200.

After 126 years at its former Birmingham city centre and Tyseley sites, in 2010 the company moved to new larger 32,000 square feet premises in Smethwick and, invested in a new £500,000 foundry.

2009 saw the Company reach 125 years and commemorated this occasion with a specially commissioned cast bench in Centenary Square Birmingham in a ceremony hosted by the City's Lord Mayor.

Please click here for our Gabriel Centenary History brochure