 This company were the successors to the Murray Round Foundry and were principally involved in the manufacture of Machine Tools.The company became part of the Fairbairn-Lawson Group in the late 1960s; however, trading conditions were not favourable, and in April 1980 the receivers were called in and 480 employees made redundant.The company was bought by Hunslet Holdings for £1.65M who continued to use the Greenbat name for their battery locomotives.