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British Industrial History
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Fischer Bearings Co
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Fischer Bearings Co of Wolverhampton.
See Bendit Brothers and Fischer's Ball and Bearing Co
1936 Villiers Engineering Co sold about one-third of the old Sunbeam factory in Wolverhampton to the Fischer Bearing Co of Germany who would equip it to make ball bearings[1]
Presumably taken over by British interests during WWII.
1945 Associated with British Timken
By 1951 was the principal subsidiary of British Timken[2]
1959 Was sold to Fafnir Bearing Co (U.K.), division of the US company[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p240