Catalogue description Documents of FERODO LTD
This record is held by Derbyshire Record Office
Reference: | GB 0026 D4562 |
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Title: | Documents of FERODO LTD |
Description: |
The company has always been aware of the benefits of advertising and promotion. This is reflected in the archive which includes runs of press advertisements and publications, photographs of bridge advertisements and, from 1953 on, material relating to the Ferodo trophy. |
Date: | 1906-1988 |
Arrangement: |
Contents D4562/1 Board of Directors D4562/2 Agreements D4562/3 Finance D4562/4 Patents D4562/5 Production D4562/6 Works D4562/7 Personnel and Staff D4562/8 Research and Development D4562/9 Sales and Publicity D4562/10 Photographs D4562/10/1 Building D4562/10/2 Production, machinery and reseach D4562/10/3 Marketing and advertising D4562/10/4 Staff D4562/10/5 Locality D4562/10/6 Ferodo News D4562/11 Press Advertisements D4562/12 Publication Files D4562/13 Ferodo Catalogue D4562/14 Ferodo International Technical News D4562/15 Ferodograms D4562/16 Calendars D4562/17 Promotional Material D4562/18 Artwork D4562/19 Press Release D4562/20 Press Cuttings D4562/21 Ferodo Trophy Files D4562/22 Ferodo Trophy Photographs D4562/23 Histories and Historical Notes D4562/24 3-D items |
Held by: | Derbyshire Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
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Physical description: | 24 series |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
These records were deposited in the Derbyshire Record Office in November 1996. |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1897 Herbert Frood began his experiments into braking materials in a hut in the garden of his house in Coombs near Chapel-en-le-Frith. His patent for the improvement of brake blocks was filed in October 1900 and production began at Green Street, Gorton the following year. An increase in trade, largely resulting from a change in sales tactics - approaching the consumer rather than the manufacturer - led to Frood renting Sovereign and Howden Mills in Chapel-en-le-Frith in 1902. Experiments in the use of asbestos began in the first decade of the twentieth century and by the outbreak of war in 1914 production of clutch linings and stair treads had started. The use of asbestos in Ferodo Ltd (as the Herbert Frood Company became in 1920) friction products led to the company joining the Turner and Newall Organisation in 1926. |
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