Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Luvax

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of Warple Way, Acton, London, W3

1928 Luvax Ltd and Herbert Winchester Pitt, both of Larden Road, Acton, filed a patent on automatic lubrication systems, particularly for motor vehicles.

1928 The Singer Six was offered with Luvax central lubrication operated by a foot pedal[1]

1928 Ernest William Johnson of London, assigned half of his patent on hydraulic shock absorbers to Luvax Ltd., which detailed an improvement on the 1925 US patent.

1929 The AGM of Joseph Lucas Ltd was told that a collaboration of Lucas, C.A.V. and Rotax had been formed, for which the marketing name Luvax "had been coined". Products offered under the Luvax name were hydraulic shock absorbers and the Luvax Bijar centralised system of chassis lubrication[2]

1930 Luvax Ltd and Herbert Winchester Pitt submitted a patent on electrically-operated brakes for motor road and other vehicles.

1930 Luvax Ltd and Ernest William Johnson of Larden Road, Acton, London, filed a patent on improvements in shock absorbers.

1931 Lucas were offering Luvax hydraulic dampers for sale. with Lucas engineers available to support the product.

1937 Shock absorbers.[3]

1943 Lucas moved their Luvax shock absorber interest into a new division which became Girling Ltd.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Dec. 13, 1928
  2. The Times Oct. 31, 1929
  3. 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries