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Skefko Ball Bearing Co

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Skefko Ball Bearing Company of Luton known as SKF.

1910 Private company incorporated, a subsidiary of AB Svenska Kullagerfabriken.

1911 Factory opened in Luton

1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with ball bearings.[1]

1926 John C. Hafner resigned as works manager of the company.[2]

1936 Company made public.

1937 Ball and roller bearing manufacturers. "SKF" Ball and Roller Bearings.[3]

1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers

1954 Skefko Ball Bearing Co., Ltd., The Ball, cylindrical roller, taper roller and spherical roller bearings, steel balls and rollers, aircraft control pulleys, rubber tyred ball bearing rollers, and power transmission equipment. Head Office and Works: Luton, Beds. T.: Luton 5700 (14 lines). T.A.: Skefko Telex Luton. London Office: 50-52, Kingsway, W.C.2. T.: Chancery 2241. [4]

1961 The only British manufacturers of all four basic types of bearings, namely: ball, cylindrical roller, taper roller and spherical roller.[5]

1969 SKF invested in modernising its 2 factories in the UK[6]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ * The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p244
  2. ↑ The Engineer 1926/04/02
  3. ↑ * 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  4. ↑ 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  5. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  6. ↑ The Times Dec. 3, 1969
  • Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p203
  • Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p241
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