British Aero Components
British Aero Components Ltd. of Holbrook Lane, Coventry.
1935 The re-armament programme of the middle thirties brought many challenges to the aircraft industry and to component makers, and one of them was the highly specialised manufacture of the sodium-cooled aero engine valve. To Mr. W. A. Oubridge the challenge was irresistible; through his contacts in America, arrangements were made for the formation, in conjunction with the Eaton Manufacturing Co., of a company at Coventry, British Aero Components Ltd.
1935 Formed as a subsidiary to C. M. D. Engineering Co in conjunction with Eaton Manufacturing Co.[1] The British Piston Ring Co could appoint directors as long as it held 51 percent of the issued capital[2]
1937 Aircraft valves, including sodium-cooled type.[3]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1947 Advert: supplier of standardised drill bushes
See also Brico Organisation.
1947 acquired by Associated Engineering Group[4]
1954 British Aero Components, Ltd. Standardized drill bushes, die-set bushes, die-set pillars, mould-box bushes, etc. Head Office: Montague Road, Warwick. T.: Warwick 320. T.A.: Aeroparts Warwick.[5]
1971 Mr Norman Harley of the company became president of the Gauge and Tool Makers' Association[6]
1981 Substantial redundancies declared
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ A History of Brico from 1909 to 1959 (Company Golden Jubilee Publication).
- ↑ The Times, Sep 25, 1935
- ↑ * 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ The Times 19 October 1965
- ↑ 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ The Times, Jul 16, 1971