Barton Marine

1960 - Sees the introduction of GRP boats, bringing sailing to a larger audience. Demand for Barton's innovative, lightweight and cost effective products continues to grow. Ron realised that Tufnol was too labour intensive and costly so set about re-designing the entire Barton product range to become the first marine company to use a new plastic injection moulding process using revolutionary fibre glass reinforced plastic materials. RSJ Barton now becomes a limited company.

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