Welcome to A W Kurton Ltd

Company History

AW Kurton Ltd was founded by Arthur William Kurton in the late 1950s after leaving the Royal Navy where skills he learnt in the ship yards of his home town Liverpool were put to good use managing small shipyards in Africa manufacturing M.L’s.

On leaving the Navy Arthur went into business with a Navy colleague from Gloucester where they set up small plumbing and heating business after a few years the Navy pals went their separate ways leaving Arthur to continue trading as A.W Kurton Ltd forming a limited company of that name on the 7th of February 1963.

Through the Sixties and Seventies the company thrived specialising in installing central heating systems within private homes around Gloucestershire Worcestershire and Oxfordshire in order to control the ever increasing volumes of work separate companies were formed and run by managers drawn from within AW Kurton Ltd.

The new companies were:

• AW Kurton Ltd (Oxford) managed by Mr Fred Macey,
• Estate’s Heating managed by Mr Alan Wixon,

These companies along with A.W Kurton Ltd continued to prosper; Arthur formed a further company G. W. Heating Ltd, specifically to deal with the large volume of work being carried out on behalf British Gas. At this time Mr Macey and Mr Wixon made offers to buy the companies they ran, these offers were accepted and both companies continued to operate successfully for a number of years.

In 1977 Arthur was joined by his son Michael Kurton who had served his time as an apprentice with British Gas, during the 1980s Michael slowly changed G. W. heating to a service and maintenance company dealing with AW Kurton's after sales and building a service customer base of its own. A.W Kurton ltd launched a new corporate image in the early 1980’s and became known as Kurtons Mechanical Services Engineers.

With an ever diminishing domestic central heating market Michael and his father moved  Kurton’s into the commercial sector specialising in plumbing and heating installations in public houses forming a close working relationship with Whitbread PLC for whom Kurton's later became a partnered contractor, installing systems within their new build chain of Brewers Fayre public houses and Travel Inn hotels

In 1986 at the age of 65 Arthur retired leaving his son Michael to continue running AW Kurton Ltd and G. W. Heating Ltd, the companies continued to build a reputation within the leisure industry and started working nationally with companies such as Whitbread, Allied Domecq, Bass, S. A. Brains and Wolverhampton and Dudley breweries.

In order to meet our clients ever more demanding requirements Kurton’s expanded into air-conditioning and ventilation specifically to meet the demand is for a cleaner environment within public houses.

The majority of Kurton's works today consists of design and build installations for our long established clients within the leisure industry. Kurton's have also diversified to specialise in installations within new build nursing homes and student accommodation. These are generally timber framed buildings where our experience in the early days of timber frame construction with Whitbread Travel Inn’s proved invaluable us with invaluable experience and expertise.

Today services that Kurton's offer our clients extends to the following:

• Surveys and reports on existing or acquired properties
• The design of plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and ventilation systems
• The production of tender documents and specifications
• The production of mechanical services CAD drawings

Kurton's are fortunate to have a team of long serving and committed employees exceptionally well qualified in their various specialised disciplines with CORGI registered installing engineers, system designers, project managers or office staff, all understand our clients requirements and are committed to providing a mechanical services installation of the highest standard suited to the building and clients needs.

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