of Tottenham.
of 3 Albemarle Street, Clerkenwell, EC1 (1937)
1924 Private company.
1937 Gun mountings, ground equipment, searchlight mountings. "Opperman" Reduction Worm Gears. [1]
WWII Manufactured parts for the De Havilland Mosquito.[2]
1961 Manufacture a wide range of spur, worm and helical gear units embodying any make or type of electric motor. [3]
1964 Opperman Gears (Holdings) Ltd acquired the non-ferrous foundry of George Kent Ltd and merged it with the existing subsidiary, W. J. Mariner and Co, as Opperman Foundries[4]
1968 Because of broadening range of business the company name was changed to Opperman Holdings[5]
1973 Opperman Holdings was acquired by Hawker Siddeley and became part of Brook Motors[6]
1985 Hawker Siddeley sold Opperman Gears Ltd, a leading maker of geared motors and mechanical power transmission equipment, to Unigate[7]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ Mosquito by C. Martin Sharp and Michael J. F. Bowyer. Published by Crecy Books in 1995. ISBN 0-947554-41-6
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times, Jun 01, 1965
- ↑ The Times, Apr 16, 1968
- ↑ The Times, Sep 01, 1973
- ↑ HS 1985 Annual report