Skefko Ball Bearing Co
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
1961 The only British manufacturers of all four basic types of bearings, namely: ball, cylindrical roller, taper roller and spherical roller.[4]
1969 SKF invested in modernising its 2 factories in the UK[5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ * The Engineer of 10th September 1920 p244
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/04/02
- ↑ * 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ * 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ 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