Cam Gears
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
Sources of Information
- The Engineer of 19th January 1968 p119
- 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE