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På begäran av »Sfärens» redaktion har
Mr S. J. Aries, den i tjänsten äldste vid
The Skefko Ball Bearing Co. i Luton,
lämnat en kåserande skildring av vårt engelska
dotterbolags tillkomst och utveckling.
The writer of the following is one of the
oldest servants — in fact, the oldest servant
— of the British Sister Company. In
complying with a request for an autobiographical
sketch for publication in »Sfären» it will be his
endeavour to give a few facts concerning the
Company with which he has been so closely
associated since its birth, and some reminiscences
likely to interest the majority of the readers,
rather than to write an account of his own
personal career.
The British Company was registered on the
7th February 1910, and the undersigned — an
Englishman born in 1883 — was appointed
Secretary.
The registered office consisted oft wo small
rooms in Carlton House, Regent Street, in the
West End of London.
It was first the intention of the Parent Company
merely to establish a selling agency in England,
and for this purpose Mr Carlander and Mr
Wingquist visited England in the latter part
of 1909, furnished with a letter of introduction
to Mr Tinsley Waterhouse, who is still today the
Chairman of the British Company. Mr
Water-house very kindly suggested that the handling of
the Agency in the United Kingdom should be
entrusted to the writer, but on learning that it
was compulsory under the Lloyd George Patent
Act that all articles patented in this country
should within four years also be manufactured
here, it was decided to form an English
Company and build a small factory (see fig. 1).
Thus the Works at Luton came into being,
and while the feelings of pride evoked by the
appearance of the first Bearing are remembered
to this day, it must be admitted that beyond
satisfying the requirements of the Patent Office
little more could be claimed for it.
The development of the Works was not
assisted by its being situated at a distance of
some 33 miles from the offices, which it was
considered ought to be in London, but it was
eventually realised that the nature of the business
was so complicated and full of detail that the
manufacture could only be satisfactorily
controlled on the spot, and in February 1912 the
offices were accordingly removed to Luton.
About the same time, i. e. during 1910,
Mr Lindskog paid his first visit to the Sister
Company, and the writer has a vivid recollection
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