Ferodo is a British brake company based in Chapel-en-le-Frith in High Peak, Derbyshire .
9-490: It was founded in 1897 by Herbert Frood (1864–1931), with manufacturing starting in Gorton in 1901 and moving to Chapel-en-le-Frith in 1902. Ferodo was the first company to use asbestos for brake linings and developed the first modern brake friction materials. Ferodo UK became part of Turner & Newall in 1926. It had a factory at Chapel-en-le-Frith and in 1964 opened another at Caernarfon . In 1998 Turner & Newall
18-542: A pension fund deficit estimated at £ 400 million. The T&N Subfund of the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Trust was organized to pay all valid Asbestos Trust claims for which the T&;N Entities have legal responsibility. The Trust was created December 27, 2007 as a result of the confirmation of The Federal-Mogul Chapter 11 Joint Plan of Reorganization. For claimants whose principal exposure to asbestos
27-409: The engineering business in 1897. His company developed friction surfaces for vehicle braking systems . Whereas other inventors concentrated on the means of placing pressure on the vehicle wheel in the braking system, Frood was one of the few to simply look at the type of material being used for contacting the wheel's surface - a more efficient frictional surface . He developed better brakes because of
36-578: The inadequacies of (primitive) shoe brakes on the Derbyshire hills. After the success of his invention, Frood started a new company called Ferodo (based on the letters of his name, with an additional "E" which was his wife’s initial (Elizabeth). His invention initially used solid woven cotton impregnated with natural resins for brake pads (friction linings). Later phenol formaldehyde resins were used. Frood became Joint Managing Director of Ferodo with William Horrocks. On 21 January 1920, Ferodo Ltd.
45-539: Was acquired by the huge automotive group Federal-Mogul . It is now part of Federal-Mogul Aftermarket UK Limited. In 2012 £13m was invested in new floors, insulation, low energy heating and new process machines. Federal-Mogul got into financial difficulties and filed for Chapter 11 protection as a result of asbestosis claims. In the United Kingdom the business went into administration in October 2001, leaving
54-683: Was an English inventor , industrialist, and entrepreneur. He is known for being the inventor of brake pads . Frood was born in Doncaster , a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire , where he grew up. He was the oldest of four children. His father was Charles Trefusis Frood, born on 1 December 1827 in Surrey. Herbert Frood's training was not in engineering. Frood started the Herbert Frood Company in around 1905, having started in
63-605: Was floated on the London Stock Exchange . Frood retired in 1927. In September 1918, Herbert Frood bought the well-known Cat and Fiddle Inn (the second-highest pub in England, next to the source of the River Mersey near Shining Tor ). The pub was in danger of being closed, and Frood planned to build a garage next to the pub. Frood was married twice. He had two daughters from his first marriage in 1893. He
72-722: Was in the United Kingdom or one of several other non-US countries, a UK Asbestos Trust was established to provide for the payment of asbestos claims in addition to the US-focused Asbestos Trust described above. This includes posthumous payments to families of Ferodo factory workers. Ferodo is famous in Britain for advertising by having the Ferodo brand name painted on railway bridges over main roads. Herbert Frood Herbert Frood (1864 - 1 May 1931)
81-573: Was married again on 21 April 1926 at Woodford church in Cheshire , by the vicar of Poynton . From this marriage he had three children; a daughter Nida (b. November 1927), a son Herbert (b. 1930), and another daughter, Margaret born in 1931. He initially lived with his family on Manchester Road in Buxton , although later put their house up for sale a few months after the marriage. Frood died in May 1931, at
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