Fenner, J H, & Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Leather & other skins processing & products manufacture Leather & other skins processing
  • Leather & other skins processing & products manufacture Leather industrial products eg belting, hose, bellows, etc, manufacture
  • Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Leather, fur & other skins distribution
  • Rubber & plastic products manufacture Rubber products inc tyre manufacture

Notes:

Established by Joseph H Fenner, 1835-86, as a leather merchant business at Hull in 1861. One grandfather had been a powerful London leather merchant while another owned Hull Tannery. By 1871 trading as J H Fenner & Co and making leather strapping, belting, hose, buckets, etc. Came to focus on belting for power transmission. 1890s built major works at Marfleet. Incorporated 1910. For many years supported by William Mortimer & Co Ltd, leather tanners of Warrington. 1920s introduced belting made from textiles. 1933 acquired Henry F Cockill & Sons Ltd of Cleckheaton, belting manufacturers. 1930s began to make new forms of transmission belting, especially V-belts, using non leather materials, eg rubber. Expanded rapidly and floated 1937. From 1950s also made metal taper-locks to secure pulleys to shafts, rubber oil seals, etc, confirming it as a broadly based power transmission business. Continues in 2012 as Fenner Plc, a world leading heavy conveyor belt and polymer component business

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