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During the last 125 years, various Brush companies (Brush Switchgear, Brush Transformers, Brush Traction and Brush Control Gear) have existed on the Falcon Works site, but throughout this period Brush Electrical Machines Ltd manufacturing generators and motors has always been the largest company. Over 5,000 staff were employed on the site ...
BRUSH Turbogenerators manufacture large generators for gas turbine and steam turbine drive applications. The company was founded by Charles Francis Brush, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1849 and who had invented his first electric dynamo in 1876. [1] Melrose Industries completed the acquisition with FKI in 2008. [2]
Works plate on Beira Railway BR7 4-4-0. In 1889, the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation Ltd was reconstructed, absorbing the Australasian Electric Light, Power, and Storage Company Ltd, and taking over the Falcon Works in Loughborough, with the new company to be called the Brush Electrical Engineering Company Ltd. [14] [15] [16]
The Brush group of companies are incorporated into this section, including Brush Turbogenerators manufacturers of mechanical to electrical generation systems, [5] Brush-Barclay and Brush Traction, both involved in rail locomotive manufacture and repair [6] (on 28 February 2011 Wabtec announced that it had acquired Brush Traction for US$31 million) [7] and Brush Transformers which manufactures ...
The Brush Ground was a cricket ground in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Owned by the Brush Electrical Machines Company and used by the company cricket team, [1] it was used as an outground by Leicestershire. They first played there in a first-class match against Hampshire in the 1953 County Championship.
The plant under Brush-Barclay ownership. During 2007, the company's poor financial position compelled it into administration. Shortly thereafter, the company was acquired by the Loughborough-based engineering company Brush Traction through its parent, the FKI Group. [2] To reflect its change in ownership, it was rebranded as Brush-Barclay. [3]