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Ransome and Marles Bearing Co

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of Stanley Works, Newark-on-Trent

1917 Public company Ransome and Marles Bearing Co Ltd formed by A. Ransome and Co

WWI: Mostly engaged in making aircraft bearings[1].

1920 September. Exhibited at the Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia with a large collection of roller and ball bearings. [2]

1920 Harper Bean had acquired a holding in Ransome and Marles Bearing Co Ltd[3].

1924 Their London address changed from 64, Mortimer-street, Gt. Portland-street, W.I. to 17, Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W.I.[4]

1927 Advert for bearings. [5]

1933 The engineering works of A. Ransome and Co was sold to Ransome and Marles Bearing Co Ltd, the occupants of the neighbouring works[6].

1937 Ball and roller bearing manufacturers. [7]

1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers.

1940 Advert for ball and roller bearings. [8]

1941 7th March, the Ransome and Marles factory was bombed, causing considerable damage. As a result 30 men and 10 women were killed, 65 treated in hospital and 100+ treated at the works' own underground hospital.

1945 Advert for ball and roller bearings. [9]

1961 Manufacturers of ball and roller bearings, producing "Thompsons" linear ball bushings. [10]

1969 The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation supported the formation of a new bearings group Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Co by amalgamating Ransome and Marles Bearing Co, Pollard Ball and Roller Bearing Co and Hoffmann Manufacturing Co[11].

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Sources of Information

  • AA. [1] Image courtesy of Aviation Ancestry
  1. ↑ The Times, 21 October 1918
  2. ↑ The Engineer of 1st October 1920 p333
  3. ↑ The Times, 25 May 1920
  4. ↑ The Engineer 1924/08/22
  5. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p128
  6. ↑ The Times, 23 February 1933
  7. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  8. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p147
  9. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1945. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p181
  10. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  11. ↑ The Times, 14 October 1969
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