Laycock Engineering | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-07-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laycock_Engineering


00:00:58 1 Products
00:02:14 2 Ownership
00:03:27 2.1 Charron Limited
00:03:57 2.2 Thos W Ward
00:05:11 2.3 Birfield Engineering and Front Wheel Drive
00:05:40 2.4 GKN



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SUMMARY
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The Laycock Engineering Company Limited of Archer Road, Millhouses, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England was an engineering business established in 1884 by W S Laycock which made small and major components for railway rolling stock.
After Laycock died in 1916 the business passed through the hands of Charron, a French automobile manufacturer, into receivership from where it was bought by Sheffield engineer and shipbreaker Thos W Ward.  Laycock was bought from Ward by a group of investors and put into the ownership of a new holding company, Birfield Limited, along with Hardy Spicer.  Both Laycock and Hardy Spicer made transmission or driveline components for the automotive industry.
In 1966 Birfield, with Laycock and Hardy Spicer, were bought by the GKN group which was entering the automotive components field following government's announcement of the intended nationalisation of its GKN Steel.