Grace's Guide To British Industrial History
Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains167,701 pages of information and247,103 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains147,919 pages of information and233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
of Harmondsworth (1947)
of Knottingley (1951)
1922 Company founded
1942 Private company (presumably as an associate ofR. K. Dundas)
1946 Company made public
1946 Was a subsidiary ofMiles Aircraft; it had been formed to produce a patented lock nut.[1]
1948 Acquired byW. E. Hughes and Co Ltd, including 50 percent holding inMetaplast (England) Ltd, holders of rights from a US company to make coating of plastic products with metal.
1949 Philidas production was moved to Hughes's factory at Ferrybridge[2]
1951 Name changed.
1959 Name changed - parent company,Ferrybridge Industries, becamePollard Ball and Roller Bearing Co[3]
1959 Part ofWhitehouse Industries
1961 Manufacturers of ball and roller bearings.
1989Williams Holdings sold the company (acquired as part ofPilgrim House) toB. Elliott and Co[4]
By 2000 was part of the Automotive Division ofInfast Group plc.[5]