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 164,322 pages of information and 246,083 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Cam Gears

From Graces Guide
1972.

of Neath, Glamorgan

of Hitchin, Herts

1928 Private company.

1961 Manufacturers of motor vehicle steering gears. 1,300 employees.

1965 Supplied about 40 percent of the steering units required by the British motor industry; proposed take-over by TRW[1]; George Kent held 39 percent[2] which it then sold[3]

1966 Concern in the press that Cam Gears bid for Engineering Productions (Clevedon) would give TRW half of the British market for steering gears[4]

1968 Manufacturer of rack and pinion units for Ford

1978 Application by T. R. W. Cam Gears Ltd., The Factory, Resolven, Neath, W. Glam SA11 4HN to vary its licence to abstract water from Nant-y-Gleisad Brook, Resolven[5]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Mar 13, 1965
  2. The Times Mar 23, 1965
  3. The Times, Aug 12, 1965
  4. The Times May 10, 1966
  5. London Gazette 23v June 1988