British Aero Components
British Aero Components Ltd. of Holbrook Lane, Coventry.
1935 The re-armament programme of the middle thirties brought many challenges to the aircraft industry and to component makers, and one of them was the highly specialised manufacture of the sodium-cooled aero engine valve. To Mr. W. A. Oubridge the challenge was irresistible; through his contacts in America, arrangements were made for the formation, in conjunction with the Eaton Manufacturing Co., of a company at Coventry, British Aero Components Ltd.
1935 Formed as a subsidiary to C. M. D. Engineering Co in conjunction with Eaton Manufacturing Co.[1] The British Piston Ring Co could appoint directors as long as it held 51 percent of the issued capital[2]
1937 Aircraft valves, including sodium-cooled type.[3]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1947 Advert: supplier of standardised drill bushes
See also Brico Organisation.
1947 acquired by Associated Engineering Group[4]
1971 Mr Norman Harley of the company became president of the Gauge and Tool Makers' Association[5]
1981 Substantial redundancies declared