Science and invention in Birmingham Rex-Acme, Alldays & Onions, Velocette, Midland Red and BSA either originate or have substantial factories in Birmingham, manufacturing motorbikes, buses, tractors, cars, tanks and aeroplanes. Other diverse engineering companies develop to feed the supply chain of the motoring industry such as Webster and Horsfall (pioneering wire for aircraft and cars), Dunlop Rubber (supplying rubber and tyres), Lucas Industries (pioneering electric and lighting), Accles & Pollock (producing tubular sections for aircraft) and Pockley Electric (manufacturing car lights). 1900: Bournville Village Trust is founded by George Cadbury, this is to make many improvements and set high standards of living and leisure pastimes
Geraldine Cadbury World War I In 1937, she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. The Barrow Cadbury Trust was founded in 1920 by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury. Geraldine Cadbury Dame Geraldine Southall Cadbury, DBE (29 June 186430 January 1941) was a British Quaker, author, social and penal reformer. She was the wife of Barrow Cadbury, with whom she had three children, Dorothy Adlington, (1892-1987), Paul Strangman (1895-1984), and Geraldine Mary, (1900-1999). Geraldine Southall was born in Birmingham, the daughter of Alfred Southall (1838-1931), a chemist by trade and a temperance