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Teleflex - Changing of the Guard

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Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---I'm curious to see how this plays out vis a vis Hyde School. Over the years, the Black family and Teleflex have sunk a considerable amount of money into, and wielded no small degree of influence over, the outcome of certain policy decisions of some importance...
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http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic. ... 37#p414337

Wonder if those were complicit in this http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic. ... 37#p414337

none-ya:
Is this the same Teleflex that makes marine steering cables and controls?

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?

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "none-ya" ---Is this the same Teleflex that makes marine steering cables and controls?
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Yes!

Ursus:

--- 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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