Its name was changed back to Cravens Limited in 1954 when it finally became a wholly owned subsidiary of John Brown.

[5] In 1928, Craven Brothers acquired the machine tool interests of Armstrong Whitworth, Joshua Buckton & Co and Thomas Shanks & Co.

In 1939, the company purchased the Victoria Works in Saxon Street, Denton from Knight & Hale.

In 1967 the remaining rolling stock business switched to making shipping containers under the name Cravens Homalloy.

During the 1880s London's The Times newspaper made regular reports on the state of trade throughout England and Scotland.

Published successes were: In 1883 Great Northern Company ordered 400 sets of wheels and axles.

[8] Cravens have built several fine dining saloons for express service and other railway carriages, wagons etc.

Another of the orders received and completed before the absorption by Metro Cammell was a royal train for Peru.

Many employees in the railway industry in general developed diseases related to asbestos, used during the locomotive and carriage building process.

[14] One of the methods of working employed at Craven's was shooting a wet slurry of asbestos from a pressure gun.

This was done to provide sound insulation to the floor of the railway car prior to final assembly.

[15] In spring 1961 CIÉ (National Railway Company of Ireland) sought tenders for the supply of 40 new Standard Class coaches, 10 to be delivered complete, the rest "part-finished" for assembly in Inchicore, Dublin, with technical assistance from the suppliers.

One of these, NO 200 (TMS EL 4007), was purchased for preservation by Euan McQueen of the Rail Heritage Trust in 1990 while it was in storage.

Two of Craven's Class 105 diesel multiple unit cars, numbers 51485 and 56121 are now owned by and have been restored to "as new" condition by the East Lancashire Railway.