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Teleflex - Changing of the Guard
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: "Xelebes" ---Teleflex appears to manufacture a bunch of things. Marine equipment, military aeronautic equipment, pneumatic equipment, and so forth. Military equipment does ring quite the bell, doesn't it?
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Well... they could possibly have been described as war profiteers during World War II; certainly they did quite well by it. Their main focus at the time (to my knowledge) was the burgeoning aeronautics industry.
The parent company (of which Teleflex appears to have been a spinoff) was E. S. & A. Robinson of Bristol, U.K., whose primary products have historically been related to the paper industry, i.e., paper, and sundry types of bags and boxes.
However, Robinson also bought up other businesses which were similar or had to do with the manufacturing and design of not only their products, but also of the machinery that made their products. I believe it was in this fashion that they may have acquired the technology for the Teleflex cable, originally devised by two British pilots in the 1930s.
Although Teleflex is not mentioned in this short history, it gives a good overview of the family from which it apparently sprung:
ROBINSONS OF BRISTOL 1844-1944, by Bernard Darwin,* with a Foreword by Foster G. Robinson** (E. S. & A. Robinson Limited, Bristol, 1945).[/list]
* Bernard Darwin: first grandson of Charles Darwin; allegedly brought up by Charles and Emma Darwin due to his mum's early death.[/list]** Sir Foster Gotch Robinson: uncle and mentor of one of the (named) partners who founded Teleflex in Canada in the mid 1940s (fwiw, E. S. & A. Robinson (Canada) Ltd was founded in Toronto in 1932). Iirc, the other named partner was a brother-in-law.
Foster Robinson was more than a little involved with Teleflex; he was on the board and held onto substantial shares.[/list][/size]
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:tup:
Anonymous:
So, what did these people have on him? He didn't just step down.
Find out what that is, and see if it can help us
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "Wayne Kernochan" ---So, what did these people have on him? He didn't just step down.
Find out what that is, and see if it can help us
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Oh, I'm sure there was a good reason for it, but it's not like I'm privy to such things. After all, I am not ... my brother's keeper. ... ;D
Anonymous:
:tup:
Ursus:
--- Quote ---ROBINSONS OF BRISTOL 1844-1944, by Bernard Darwin,* with a Foreword by Foster G. Robinson** (E. S. & A. Robinson Limited, Bristol, 1945).[/list]
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Here's that Foreword by Foster G. Robinson (p. vii), and also the Author's Foreword by Bernard Darwin (p. ix)...
[Does the first paragraph perchance portend of Teleflex's later meddling ... in the politics of character? ... ;D ]
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FOREWORD[/list]
ROBINSONS OF BRISTOL is the story of a business started by the rugged individuality and strong character of a man of the old liberal nonconformist school, a character typical of those times so truthfully portrayed in Arthur Bryant's English Saga.
Since the days of the founder many men have played their part, foreseeing and adapting the business to changing economic conditions. In a record of this kind, as far as recent history is concerned, they must remain unnamed.
It was not possible to publish this book during the war, but I hope that it may yet prove of interest to those who have known the firm and who have been connected with its progress.
I should like to pay my tribute to the untiring work of Mr. Ernest H. Bibbing, for many years our head artist, who collected most of the information from which the story is written.
I should also like to take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Bernard Darwin for the great interest he has taken in the history of the firm and for the happy way in which he has put the narrative into words.
< Foster G. Robinson signature >
September, 1945.
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AUTHOR'S FOREWORD[/list]
IT has been a great pleasure to essay some account of a remarkable business, the greater because I dare to call several members of the Robinson family my friends. I am very grateful for the chance, but that alone would hardly justify a foreword from me. There is, however, one piece of gratitude that cannot be stifled: it must out. Mr. E. H. Bibbing, an old friend and secant of the company, has gathered the straw with which I have tried to make bricks. Indeed I cannot help feeling that the voice is Jacob's voice but the hands that did the work are the hands of Esau. That it was a labour of love on his part I know well, but it involved much research and was accomplished with infinite if happy pains. Mr. Bibbing has put his accumulated results at my disposal and has been generous, helpful and encouraging in every possible way. I am extremely sensible of his kindness and wish to declare my debt to him with the most heartfelt emphasis of which I am capable,
B. D.
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