of Letchworth, British subsidiary of a US company, makers of automatic transmissions.
1901 Warner Gear company was founded in USA
1903 Borg and Beck Company founded in USA.
1909 Warner Gear began manufacturing a manual transmission for cars[1].
1919 Became private company in UK.
1928 The Borg-Warner Corporation was formed - including Borg and Beck, Marvel-Schebler, Warner Gear and Mechanics Universal Joint.
1929 The US parent acquired Morse Chain.
1955 establishment of plant at Letchworth to make automatic gearboxes[2]
1961 Power transmission engineers, manufacturing roller chains, flexible couplings, Morse timing chains, specialising in overdrives and automatic transmissions. 900 employees.[3]
1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Transmissions.[4]
1981 Fiat was BW's first major customer for their advanced CVTs.[5]
1987 Leveraged buy-out of Borg-Warner Corporation; Borg-Warner Automotive Inc., is created as a subsidiary of a new Borg-Warner Corporation
1993 Borg-Warner Automotive Inc. was spun-off from Borg-Warner.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Borg Warner history [1]
- ↑ The Times, Oct 14, 1968
- ↑ * 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ * 1963 Motor Show
- ↑ The Engineer 1981/02/26