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Timken-Detroit Axle Co

From Graces Guide
November 1922.
September 1925.
November 1926.
August 1933.
March 1948.
April 1952.
June 1952.
November 1954.

1909 Timken Detroit Axle Co was formed, located on Clark Street in Detroit, Michigan.[1]

1928 Willard F. Rockwell sold the company he had formed to exploit his invention of a new bearing system for lorry axles to the Timken-Detroit Axle Co, staying on as its manager.

Automotive Products Co were the sole representatives in the British Isles for the company.[2]

By 1954 was subsidiary of Rockwell Spring and Axle Co of Detroit (see advert)

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Meritor website
  2. ↑ 1920s adverts
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