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Latest revision as of 08:23, 5 May 2024
of Tyburn Road, Erdington, Birmingham and of Bearing Works, Great North Road, Ferrybridge, Knottingley
1919 Private company formed as G. L. Manufacturing Co Ltd[1]
1920 Name changed.
1925 Name changed.
1933 Name changed to Pollard Bearings Ltd
1945 Advert for roller bearings (of Bearing Works, Tyburn Road, Erdington).[2]
1946 Expansion at the Erdington site was no longer possible to cope with increasing demand. The whole of the share capital was acquired by W. E. Hughes and Co Ltd[3]
1949 New factory built at Ferrybridge[4]
1951 The parent company was renamed Ferrybridge Industries
c.1957 Acquired Hanwell Engineering Co of Northampton[5]
1960 Makers of bearings.[6]
1961 Ball and roller bearings transmission equipment manufacturers.[7]
1969. Pollard Bearings and Power Transmissions.
Later became part of Pollard Ball and Roller Bearing Co and then Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Co.