Glacier Metal Co
of Alperton, Wembley
1899 Company founded.
1911 Issued catalogue. Anti-friction material. (The Glacier Anti-Friction Metal Company of London)
1912 Exhibitor at the Non-Ferrous Metals Exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Halls[1].
1928 Private company.
1935 Company made public.
1937 Bearing and bearing metal manufacturers. "Findlay's" Motor Metals. "Glacier" Metals and Bearings.
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1945 Advert for bearing metal.
1961 Manufacturers of plain bearings of all types for petrol and diesel engines, turbines, compressors, fans, machine tools and pumps; also produce centrifugal oil cleaners. 3,900 employees.
1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Bearings and bushes for engines and chassis.
1965 Acquired by Associated Engineering Group[2]
1966 The company had supplied factories for making thin bearings to Roumania and East Germany[3].
1968 New factory extension at Kilmarnock. Group had total of 28,000 employees. Acquired Edmunds Walker[4].
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Engineer of 21st July 1911 p84
- Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p34
- 1963 Motor Show
- The Engineer of 15th March 1968 p428
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries