Pollard Ball And Roller Bearing Company
Pollard Ball and Roller Bearing Company with its headquarters at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire was a manufacturer of ball and roller bearings founded by John King. Formerly it had been known as Ferrybridge Industries and was originally a small family motor repair firm, Whitehouse Motor Industries, Ford dealers. Ferrybridge owned Pollard Bearings Limited. International Subsidiaries were established in France, Canada and USA. In 1964 30 per cent of the trade was direct with the motor industry in Germany, Italy, France and Sweden as well as USA Industrial Reorganisation Corporation In May 1969 government pressure exerted through the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation required the sale of all the capital of Pollard to Ransome & Marles Ransome & Marles Bearing Company Limited was the owner of a business making ball and roller bearings founded during the First World War to make bearings for aircraft and other engines. Before the war most bearings had been imported and most of tho .. ...
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Ferrybridge
Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton. It is linked to other communities by the A1, which follows the route of the Great North Road. The village falls within the Knottingley ward of Wakefield City Council. The origin of the place-name is from Old Norse and means ''bridge by the ferry''. It appears as ''Ferie'' in the Domesday Book of 1086 and as ''Ferybrig'' in 1198. Geography and geology Geologically, Ferrybridge and Knottingley are located on rich soil, over a bed of Magnesian Limestone. The area is close to junctions of the M62 and A1(M) motorways; as well as junctions on the rail network, including northward to York, south to Pontefract (and Rotherham), west to both Wakefield and Leeds, east to Goole and south-east to the East Coast Main Line; the River Aire meets the Aire and Calder navigation close to the east of the town. ...
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the reorganisation of the Local Government Act 1972 which saw it formed from a large part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The county had a recorded population of 2.3 million in the 2011 Census making it the fourth-largest by population in England. The largest towns are Huddersfield, Castleford, Batley, Bingley, Pontefract, Halifax, Brighouse, Keighley, Pudsey, Morley and Dewsbury. The three cities of West Yorkshire are Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield. West Yorkshire consists of five metropolitan boroughs ( City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds and City of Wakefield); it is bordered by the counties of Derbyshire to the south, Greater Manchester to the south-west, La ...
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John King, Baron King Of Wartnaby
John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby (29 August 1917 – 12 July 2005) was a British businessman, who was noted for leading British Airways from an inefficient, nationalised company to one of the most successful airlines of recent times. This success was a flagship of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation programme. He was also directly involved with the " dirty tricks" campaign waged by British Airways against Virgin Atlantic. Early life and career King was born in Brentford, Middlesex. His father, Albert John King, had fought in the First World War, and later worked as a postman; his Irish-born mother, Kathleen King, worked as a seamstress. He was the second of four children. He was reared on a small property attached to a public house in Dunsfold, Surrey. He left school in 1929 at the age of 12 without qualifications and started work in a local factory which produced vacuum cleaners, where his work included machining clamping stays, earning him the nickname "Clamping Stay ...
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Industrial Reorganisation Corporation
The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation was an entity established by the Government of the United Kingdom to reorganise British industry. History The corporation was established by the First Wilson ministry in 1966 with the objective of encouraging mergers to make British industries more competitive. Its activities included facilitating the merger of GEC and AEI in 1966 and of the merger of that enlarged entity with English Electric in 1968.The Times, 22 June 1983 It also facilitated the merger of British Motor Corporation with Leyland Motors in 1968 and the merger of RHP, a ball bearing manufacturer, with Ransome & Marles Ransome & Marles Bearing Company Limited was the owner of a business making ball and roller bearings founded during the First World War to make bearings for aircraft and other engines. Before the war most bearings had been imported and most of tho ... in 1969. It was wound up by the Heath ministry in 1970. The Chairman throughout most of its life was Sir ...
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Ransome & Marles
Ransome & Marles Bearing Company Limited was the owner of a business making ball and roller bearings founded during the First World War to make bearings for aircraft and other engines. Before the war most bearings had been imported and most of those were from Germany. The business is now part of NSK UK Limited but Ransome & Marles former plant, Stanley Works, remains in operation in Northern Road, Newark NG24 2JF, Nottinghamshire UK Products The ball-bearing industry provides an essential input to the motor, machine tool, engineering and aircraft industries. History A Ransome & Co Ransome & Marles grew from another separate business needing bearings for its own products. In 1868 Allen Ransome (1833-1913) and Frederic Josselyn (1842-1900) set up A Ransome & Co in Chelsea, London. A Ransome & Co designed and manufactured woodworking and timber-handling machinery. Later they acquired a foundry in Battersea. Vincent Sydney Woods (1855-1939) joined them at the foundry and the f ...
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Bearing Manufacturers
Bearing(s) may refer to: * Bearing (angle), a term for direction * Bearing (mechanical), a component that separates moving parts and takes a load * Bridge bearing, a component separating a bridge pier and deck * Bearing BTS Station in Bangkok * ''Bearings'' (album), by Ronnie Montrose in 2000 See also * Bering (other) * Baring (other) Baring may refer to one of the following People * Baring (surname) * Baring family German-British Baring family * Family Name of the Earl of Cromer * Family Name of the Baron & Earl of Northbrook * Family Name of the Baron Ashburton * Fami ...