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These photographs were captured in 2012 and were given minor edits during 2024. They remain a true record of the building during the time of capture by the former Urbex Photography Team.

Exide Batteries 91,000sq ft distribution centre formally closed in 2002 with the loss of around 170 jobs. Exide was formed by W.W Gibbs in 1888 and was then called Electric Storage Battery Company.

Gibbs purchased the ideas and patents of inventor Clement Payen to make the storage battery a commercial product. Gibbs targeted electric lighting companies so they could use the storage batteries to provide services to their customers.

Exide Batteries…

Visit Date: April 2012

In 1900, the company developed a product of greater capacity and less weight for electic taxicabs. The battery was the first to bear the name Exide, short for “Excellent Oxide”.

Exide entered the dry-cell battery industry in 1957 when it acquired the Ray-O-Vac Company, then the second largest producer of dry-cell batteries in the United States. Following the acquisition of the Wisconsin Battery Company, Exide then started to produce motorcycle batteries along side other specialist batteries.

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In 1987, it acquired General Battery Corporation and in 2000 Exide acquired GNB Technologies, a leading North American supplier of automotive batteries. Two years later however, Exide filed for bankruptcy after compiling a debt of $2.5 billion as a result of the recent acquisitions.

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