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Hobourn Eaton Manufacturing Co

From Graces Guide
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October 1975. Power Steering Pumps.

Makers of lubricating oil pumps, of Strood, Rochester, Kent

1946 Eaton held a minority share in the business.

1946 Opened a factory in Medway

1948 Exhibited products at Copenhagen on its stand at the British Industries' Fair.[1]

1950 Hobourn Eaton Manufacturing Co., Ltd.. Priory Rd., Strood[2]

1955 Mentioned in connection with Hobourn Aero Components.[3]

1961 Precision engineers and manufacturing oil, hydraulic and rotary pumps, contractors to H.M. Government. [4]

1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Rotary oil pumps.[5]

1981 Listed as 'Hobourn Eaton Ltd., Priory Road, Strood, Rochester'.[6]

1987 Patent 4673341 for a 'variable capacity roller- and vane-type pumps with non-circular cam profile'

See Hobourn Automotive

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Sources of Information

  1. Kent Messenger & Gravesend Telegraph 27 August 1948
  2. Kent Messenger & Gravesend Telegraph 08 December 1950
  3. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 22 April 1955
  4. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  5. 1963 Motor Show
  6. The London Gazette Publication date:23 July 1981 Issue:48688 Page:9691