Roofing services in Dagenham including flat roofing, tiled roofing, slate roofing - Dagenham Roofer T. J. Copping Roofing Ltd

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Reliability and timekeeping

9.87

Tidiness

9.71

Courtesy

9.88

Workmanship

9.79

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Some Dagenham History

Dagenham first appeared in a document as Dæccanhaam in a charter of Barking Abbey dating from 666 AD. The name almost certainly originated with a small farmstead, the ham or farm of a man called Daecca, as Dæccan hamm in Old English means home of a man called Dæcca.

In 1931 the Ford Motor Company relocated from Trafford Park in Manchester, to a plant in Dagenham, which was already the location of supplier Briggs Motor Bodies. A large riverside site was developed to become Europes largest car plant, a massive vertically integrated site with its own blast furnaces and power station, importing iron ore and exporting finished vehicles. By the 1950s Ford had taken over Briggs at Dagenham and its other sites at Doncaster, Southampton, Croydon and Romford. At its peak the Dagenham plant had 4 million square feet of floor space and employed 40,000 workers.

On 20 February 2002, full production was discontinued due to overcapacity in Europe and the relative difficulty of upgrading the 60 year-old site compared with other European sites such as Almussafes in Valencia, Spain and Cologne. Other factors leading to the closure of the Auto assembly line were the need of the site for the new Diesel Centre of Excellence, which produces half of Fords Diesel Engines worldwide, and the UK employment laws when compared to Spanish, German and Belgian laws.

In 2005 Cummins went into a joint venture and offered $15 million to reinstate the factory. Ford and Cummins offered a good redundancy package, billed as one of the best in UK manufacturing. It is the location of the Dagenham wind turbines. Some 4,000 people now work at the Ford plant.

The movie Made in Dagenham is a dramatisation of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike at the plant, when female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination and unequal pay.

Sterling Ltd who were famous for manufacturing British Army weapons and Jaguar car parts were also based in Dagenham until they went bankrupt in 1988. Other industrial names once known worldwide were Ever Ready, whose batteries could be found in shops throughout the Commonwealth, Bergers Paint and the chemical firm of May and Baker who in 1935 revolutionized the production of antibiotics with their synthetic sulfa-drug known as M&B 693. The May & Baker plant, owned and run by Sanofi-Aventis, occupies a 108-acre site in Rainham Road South, near Dagenham East tube station. It was abandoned in 2013 when the company closed this plant. The council has decided they will redevelop the site with a new shopping centre: stores announced so far are a Sainsburys supermarket and a pub restaurant.

T. J. Copping Roofing Ltd are based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and cover North London, the Home Counties and all surrounding areas.

We are equipped to cater for all your roofing requirements, our services include:

• Any new roof work and repair work
• Domestic and commercial roofing services
• Slating and tiling
• Flat roofs (single ply membrane and high-performance torch-on felt)
• Lead work, Bays, valleys, parapets, flashings and box gutters
• Cement work (verges and chimney stacks)
• Fascias, soffits and guttering
• Insurance work
• Repairs and maintenance such as slipped slates, broken tiles, leaking gutters and overhauls.

We also have public liability insurance and our staff are all fully qualified, so you can rest assured that you are dealing with a reputable company. Thanks to our many years of experience we have amassed a large base of satisfied customers. Many of our past customers are so happy with our work they recommend our services to their friends and family. Our customers recognise that we are a company that can be trusted to complete the job to a high standard and within the set timescale.