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Armstrong Patents Co

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Oct 1949.
Lever arm damper.
November 1954. Heli-Coil insert.
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Lever arm damper or double parallel-piston damper. This one is for a British Leyland Vehicle probably an Austin Allegro or Morris Marina; Australia.

Armstrong's Patent Co, of Beverley, maker of shock absorbers

1926 Company founded by F. G. Gordon Armstrong in Eastgate, Beverley.

1930 Became private company: Armstrong's Patents Co

1935 Public company: Armstrong Shock Absorbers Ltd.[1] The Patents Company continued as the operating company

1961 Manufacturers of "Armstrong" shock absorbers, "Heli-Coil" screw inserts, "Strongarm" door closers and hydraulic remote controls. 4,000 employees. [2]

1961 Armstrong Shock Absorbers changed its name to Armstrong Equipment[3] with subsidiary Armstrong's Patents Co

1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Shock absorbers. [4]

1986 Armstrongs was making replacement exhausts for cars; the company won an appeal to the Law Lords against BL to be allowed to make such exhausts without payment of royalty to BL.[5]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times, Jul 04, 1935
  2. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  3. ↑ The Times, Oct 25, 1961
  4. ↑ 1963 Motor Show
  5. ↑ The Times, February 28, 1986
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