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Pollard Bearings Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • GL Manufacturing Co Ltd
  • Pollard Bearing Co Ltd
  • Hughes, W E, & Co Ltd
  • Pollard Ball & Roller Bearing Co Ltd
  • Ransome, Hoffmann, Pollard Co Ltd

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
  • Ferrybridge, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England

Sectors:

  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Bearings production

Notes:

Established 1919 as GL Manufacturing Co Ltd at Birmingham. By 1933 known as Pollard Bearing Co Ltd. Then made ball, roller and thrust bearings, 1946 acquired by W E Hughes & Co Ltd when large new works built at Ferrybridge. Later known as Pollard Ball & Roller Bearing Co Ltd. 1970 subsumed into Ransome, Hoffmann, Pollard Co Ltd

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