Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Co
Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Co were bearing manufacturers.
1969 The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation supported the formation of a new bearings group Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Co by amalgamating Ransome and Marles Bearing Co, Pollard Ball and Roller Bearing Co and Hoffmann Manufacturing Co[1].
1974 I. H. Owen appointed as managing director of RHP's industrial bearings division. He was previously director and general manager of the transmission and automotive division.[2]
1974 Opened its fully automated production line for ball bearings which it spent £2,500,000 which was understood at the time to be the largest single capital investment project in the engineering industry.[3]
1974 Acquired MTE
1980 Acquired Technograph and Telegraph to extend the electrical diversification further[4]
1982 By now it was a subsidiary of Ingersoll Rand. It was stated RHP held the biggest share of business with BL sending five million bearings a year to the company for clutches, gearboxes and wheelhubs.[5]
1985 Bid for Muirhead, maker of facsimile machines and electronic components, especially for the defence industry, which RHP said would be a useful further extension into electricals [6]
1986 Acquired the capacitor business of Salford Electrical Instruments, and two fire and explosion control companies from Allegheny International - Graviner and Deugra of Germany[7] [8]. Sold Muirhead Data Communications to the Crosfield Electronics subsidiary of De La Rue[9]
1987 Awarded the 1986 Natwest Engineering Marketing Award[10]
1987 Management buy-in of the bearings division, Britain's largest bearings manufacturer[11] - see United Precision Industries
1988 The remainder of RHP was merged into a new company Pilgrim House formed by acquiring Burgess Group[12]
1990 NSK of Japan acquired full ownership of the UPI Group (RHP brand) of Nottingham, Britain’s largest bearing manufacturer.[13]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 14 October 1969
- ↑ The Engineer 1974/03/07
- ↑ The Engineer 1974/06/20
- ↑ The Times, Jul 10, 1980
- ↑ The Engineer 1982/02/25
- ↑ The Times , Apr 25, 1985
- ↑ The Times, February 18, 1986
- ↑ The Times, December 12, 1986
- ↑ The Times, May 23, 1986
- ↑ The Times, June 06, 1987
- ↑ The Times, December 22, 1987
- ↑ The Times, October 10, 1988
- ↑ NSK website [1]