Fonds
BRUSH ELECTRICAL MACHINES LTD
Catalogue reference: DE 5319
What’s it about?
This record is about the BRUSH ELECTRICAL MACHINES LTD dating from 1934 - 1981.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DE 5319
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Title (The name of the record)
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BRUSH ELECTRICAL MACHINES LTD
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Date (When the record was created)
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1934 - 1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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<p>See also 13D71, DE2857, DE5072, DE5277, DE6454</p>
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- <corpname>Brush Engineering Company Ltd, Loughborough, c 1889 - 1971</corpname>
- <corpname>Brush Electrical Machines Ltd, Loughborough, 1971</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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22 Files
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Deposited: 11 March 1997
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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History of the Company
The Brush Company was founded as the Anglo American Electric Light Company to market the inventions of Charles Francis Brush (an American) in Lambeth, London. When the Company's activities expanded the Falcon Engine Works in Loughborough, Leicestershire were taken over. Falcon Works had been involved in steam engine manufacture and Brush continued this, despite being involved mainly in electrical work. Brush took over the Falcon trademark and have used it ever since.
Brush were also major coachbuilders and made everything from horse buses and trams to aeroplanes and relatively modern (1952) bus bodies. They made transformers and turbines and were especially famous as the licensed builder of Ljungstrom turbines. They were also licensed to build Peckham Tramcar trucks (the running wheels of a tram) - and Brush's own products were less successful here.
Brush built railway coaches, a part of the business inherited from Falcon until the 1920s, battery vehicles (1945-1960s) and a multiplicity of other general engineering products. They ceased coachbuilding in 1952 and began to concentrate on diesel locos (for the world's railways) and electrical switchgear. The Brush Group was acquired by the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1957. In 1971 the product divisions of Brush Electrical Engineering Ltd were changed into separate companies, Brush Electrical Machines Ltd., Brush Transformers Ltd., Brush Switchgear Ltd., and Brush Fusegear Ltd. In 1990 the Traction division of B.E.M. Ltd. Became Brush Traction Ltd. In 1991 the Hawker Siddeley Group was acquired by British Tyre and Rubber (BTR). They originally had a connection with the British Electric Traction Company but this has long ceased.
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Record URL
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