Suppliers
Allied Rubber Products and Engineering Co. Ltd.
Great Britain
Suspension components chassis, rubber seals, hoses, protective covers, clips and rubber details
ATE - Alfred Teves
1951 Der Vakuum-Bremskraftverstärker ATE T50, System Bendix Hydrovac, geht in Serie. Teves hatte sich kurz zuvor die Lizenzen gesichert und damit eine Basis für den bis heute andauernden Erfolg des Geschäftsbereichs Hydraulische Bremssysteme gelegt. Beim Betätigen wird über einen Hauptzylinder Druck erzeugt. Dieser schließt über einen Steuerkolben das Vakuumventil und öffnet das Außenluftventil. Der Differenzdruck wirkt auf den Vakuumkolben und erzeugt den Verstärkungseffekt.
1951 Teves erwirbt die Rechte für den Hydrovac-Vakuum-Booster der amerikanischen Firma Bendix und bringt ihn unter dem Namen ATE T50 auf den Markt: Der Vakuum-Bremskraftverstärker ist die Antwort auf die Tatsache, dass Autos immer schwerer werden und der Tritt aufs Bremspedal immer mehr Kraft verlangt. Der Booster nutzt den Unterdruck auf der Ansaugseite des Motors zur Bremskraftverstärkung und erhöht den Bedienkomfort enorm. Diese Technologie verdrängt rasch das von der Autoindustrie verfolgte Prinzip der selbstverstärkenden Radbremse -
1961 Mit dem T51 führt ATE die Bremskraftverstärker-Technologie ein, die heute weltweit Standard ist: Er wird an der Spritzwand montiert und direkt vom Bremspedal angesteuert.
1972 Teves hat sich endgültig von den Bendix-Lizenzen frei gemacht: Während beim T51 das Steuerventil noch eine Bendix-Lizenz war, ist dieses Ventil im neuen ATE T52 eine Eigenentwicklung. Erstmals eingesetzt wird der T52 1973 im Mercedes-Benz W114, dem legendären Mittelklassemodell »Strich 8«
1967 wurde die Alfred Teves GmbH durch die US-amerikanische Firma ITT übernommen.
1998 wurde das Unternehmen von der Continental AG aufgekauft .
Heute werden im Unternehmensbereich Continental Automotive Systems (CAS) diese Marken geführt:
- Teves für Brems-, Stabilitäts- und Fahrwerkregelsysteme und
- ATE für den Bereich Independent Aftermarket, Fahrzeugersatzteile
C.O.H. Bains Limited
Tunbridge Wells, Great Britain
VOLVO P1800: Plastic plugs for floors and sills
C O H Baines have 60 years experience of supplying rubber to general industry and to specialist applications in vintage & classic cars, caravans, marine, aeronautical, electrical and coach building.
Bofors
Bofors, 130 years older than the United States
There are many companies, especially in the machine-building and mining industries, whose histories date back to the misty beginnings of Swedish economic life. Often they began as a small forge or smithy, which grew into a bruk. The bruk, a typically Swedish institution, was originally a type of country estate on which iron-melting, rather than agriculture, was the chief occupation.
From these early manorial establishments, an unbroken process of economic development led to the modern industrial concerns of today.
One of the oldest and largest of these is the Bofors Company, founded in 1646 as a village smithy. Today Bofors is a world renowned weapons-maker. The Bofors 40-mm. automatic gun, for example, was perhaps the most widely employed piece of artillery in World War II.
Volvo now draws upon the vast experience and resources of Bofors for more peaceful ends. Crankshafts, gear blanks, and other Volvo forgings and steel parts which have helped create the Volvo reputation for quality come from Bofors.
Borg Warner
Letchworth, Great Britain
BW 35 fully-automatic transmission VOLVO P120 and P1800
Kupplung
Bosch
Robert Bosch AG
Starter motor, dynamo, ignition system, horn, D-Jetronic
Bristol
Producer of precision aircraft components and low-volume production Bristol cars.
Clifford Covering
Great Britain
Wooden rimmed steering wheel
Connolly Brothers
Great Britain
1878-2002
Leather facing on the front seats of Volvo 1800E und 1800ES, model years 1972 and 1973.
For over a century Connolly Bros. was synonymous with the quality leather used in the very best of British marques, including Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin and Jaguar. It supplied both specialist marques such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Morgan and Maserati and as well as larger manufacturers such as Renault and Volvo. Renowned for the unique aroma and quality of its finished upholstery leather Connolly earned both an international reputation for hides of the highest quality and a Royal Warrant.
Connolly Brothers ceased trading in June 2002.
Cornercroft Limited
of Ace Works, Coventry, Great Britain
Hub caps
Cromodora Wheels SpA
Ghedi (Brescia), Italy
Das Unternehmen fertigte bereits 1962 als einer der ersten Hersteller geschmiedete und gegossene Räder aus Magnesium-Legierungen für Wettbewerbsfahrzeuge.
Beim Volvo 1800E wurde in den Modelljahren 1970 und 1971 das Rad "Composite" von Cromodora Wheels serienmässig montiert. Die Felge besteht aus Stahl, der Radkranz aus Magnesium.
Das Rad wird auch "Kleeblatt", "cloverleaf" oder "trèfle" genannt.
Delco-Gas Freon
USA
Dunlop
Bremsbeläge
Dunlopillo Cushions
Great Britain
Seats
Felo-Werkzeugfabrik GmbH
Felo-Werkzeugfabrik Holland-Letz GmbH
35279 Neustadt (Hessen) Deutschlang
Lieferant der Schraubendreher für das Bordwerkzeug.
Die Felo-Werkzeugfabrik wurde 1950 in Neustadt gegründet. Aus den bescheidenen Anfängen mit zwei Angestellten wuchs innerhalb von 60 Jahren durch Innovationskraft, Qualitätsbewusstsein und Begeisterung einer der weltweit führenden Hersteller von Schraubendrehern und Bits.
Fichtel Sachs
Kupplung
Joseph Fray Ltd.
Great Britain
Radiator grille
Girling
Great Britain
Girling of Tyseley Birmingham was a British automotive systems manufacturing company.
Bremskraftverstärker
front wheel disk brakes and servo assistence
disk brakes 1962
Goodyear
Goodyear GS800 1972-73
Hardy Spicer & Co
Great Britain
Manufacturers of cardan shafts, universal joints and constant velocity joints for motor and agricultural trades.
Hella
D
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
Great Britain
Dulux body paint
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company and the largest manufacturing company in the British Empire. The Company was founded in December 1926.
On January 2, 2008, AkzoNobel completed the acquisition of Imperial Chemical Industries PLC.
Jensen Motors Ltd
West Bromich few miles west of the city of Birmingham
body shells from Linwood to west Bromwich
Jensen im Familienbesitz verkauft to the Norcros Group, Kapital für Erweiterung 70.000 sq ft
Jensen Motors Ltd was a British manufacturer of ports cars and commercial vehicles, based in the Lyng - West Bromwich (in the West Midlands, west of Birmingham).
Volvo P1800: In 1960 Jensen won a contract from Volvo to assemble and finish the bodies for their P1800 coupé. Pressed Steel manufactured the body-shells at their Linwood plant in Scotland and shipped them to Jensen Motors Ltd in West Bromwich to be finished, painted and trimmed, before then being shipped to Sweden where Volvo completed the final build.
Jensen began as a small coachbuilding firm run by brothers Richard and Alan Jensen; they bought out the body works of W.J. Smiths & Sons where they worked after the owner's death and renamed it Jensen Motors in 1934.
The company had come under the control of the Norcros Group in 1959 and following disagreements Alan and Richard Jensen resigned in 1966.
Laycock de Normanville
Great Britain
Overdrive Type D and J
Joseph Lucas
Joseph Lucas Ltd
Birmingham 18
Great Britain
Electrical equipment and spare parts
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Laycock_Engineering_Co
Luxan Ltd.
Insulating cardboard
Mahle
Kolben
Metalifacture Ltd
Great Britain
Michelin
1970 and 1971 coupé: Michelin 165 HR 15 XAS
Pianoforte Supplies Ltd
Great Britain
Brake discs
Pirelli
Italy
Tires
165 SR 15: Factory original equipment from 1961 through 1969
Pirelli CN36 1972 und 1973
Bänder für Sitze
Pressed Steel Co. Ltd
14 miles south-west of Glasgow.
Converter of sheetmetal PSC
Dashboard, door panels, panels and armrests
One of the largest builders of pressed steel in Western Europe.
Three majors factories
Swindon heute BMW Tochter Swindon Pressings Limited. fertigt Teile für Mini
Pressed Steel Company which opened in 1948 making farm machinery, railway wagons and car bodies.
im 1961 eröfneten Werk Linwood west of Glasgow wurden die Karosserieteile für Volvo gefertigt
Robbson p82
was home to the Rootes car plant and the Pressed Steel company, both of which ceased production in 1981.
1965 übernommen von BMC, Linwodd factory sold to Rootes
In 1967 the Chrysler Corporation took over
55° 50′ 49.2″ N, 4° 30′ 7.2″ W
Pullmaflex Benelux N.V
Pullmaflex Benelux N.V., Belgium
In June 1994, Leggett & Platt (USA) acquired the Pullmaflex Group.
Pullmaflex manufactures seat suspension systems, mainly for the automotive industry but also for furniture, busses, trucks, trains and airplanes.
Pullmaflex has companies in the UK, Sweden and Spain,
Stahlgeflechtdecken für die Vordersitze in Volvo 1800E/ES, Modelljahre 1972 und 1973
Stuttgarter Karosseriewerk Reutter - Recaro
Sitzrahmen 1964-1971
Beschläge für stufenlos verstellbare Sitzlehne
1906
Wilhelm Reutter gründet am 1. Oktober 1906 in Stuttgart die Firma „Wilhelm Reutter, Automobil Carosserien jeder Art, Teilarbeiten und Reparaturen“.
1953
Patent Nr. 881099 für „einen Gelenkbeschlag für Polstersitze mit verstellbarer Lehne“, den Reutter-Liegesitzbeschlag.
J Sankey & Sons Ltd.
Albert Street Works, Bilston, Staffordshire, Great Britain
They ended up as part of the GKN Group.
Sankeys no longer exist in Bilston. Their local demise was a part of the collapse of manufacturing industry in the 1980s
http://blackcountryhistory.org/
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Joseph_Fray
VOLVO P1800: Wheels 4 1/2 x 15 ", bumpers
Servais
Great Britain
Exhaust system
Smiths
Smiths Motor Assessory Division
Great Britain
Instrumentation
Steering Wheels
Birmingham, Great Britain
Steering wheel
SWAG
Germany
Cam gear and thrust plate
The Medway Spring & Washers
West Bromwich, Great Britain
Springs, bolts, nuts, washers
Triplex
Great Britain
Édouard Bénédictus
Pilkington Group Limited
Société du Verre Triplex
Ferdinand Kinon
Tudor
xide Technologies S.A., Madrid www.tudor.es
In 1993, Exide initiated European expansion with development of an overseas battery division. In the United Kingdom, Euro-Exide began by acquiring BIG batteries and Gemala Ltd. In Spain, Exide purchased Tudor, and in France CEAC.
Exide Technologies www.gnb.com
Vandervell
Vandervell have been manufacturing the worlds finest engine bearings since the 1930's.
1998: Dana Holding Corporation acquires Glacier Vandervell Bearings Group. It now consists of Glacier Vandervell North America's two operations in Ohio and Iowa, along with Glacier Vandervell Europe with six operations in the UK, France, Italy, Slovakia and another in Brazil. Overall, Glacier Vandervell engine bearing's OEM and aftermarket operations employ over 3,000 people worldwide.
2008: Vandervell is since 2008 part of the MAHLE group, so the best bearings in the world are now united with the best pistons in the world.
For VOLVO 1800: Mainrod bearings, rod bushings
VDO
Deutschland
Wasa AB
Sweden
Tryckknappar
Druckknöpfe für die Teppichausstattung
Wilmot Breedon
Locks and kees for doors, boots and fuel filler cap. Aka Union.
Wilmot Breeden closed there doors in 1984 and were purchased by WBH as part of a managment buy-out.
Willenhall Motor Radiator Co. Ltd
Great Britain
In 1910 the Day family, who had made keys in North Street for generations, moved into the business of making car radiators. After the first world war they moved out of Wednesfield to the old Clyno works in Wolverhampton, and then to Willenhall. In the late 1930s they formed a company called Willenhall Motor Radiator Ltd and then moved out of Willenhall back to Wednesfield where, in Neachell's Lane, they expanded into assembling motor bodies, employing large numbers of people.
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/
Worcester Windshields Ltd
of Allen Works, Barbourne, Worcester, Great Britain
Windscreens
The company was disolved in 1992.
York
Kompressor für Air-Conditioning
Als Zubehör erhältlich , beim Händler installiert
Frig-a-King dash mounted unit
In Texas hergestellt
Webb p86
ZF
Friedrichshafen