Photograph: Ferodo factory near Caernarfon

PHOTOGRAPH: Ferodo factory near Caernarfon with the railway in the foreground.

Ferodo 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 has been a world leading company in the design and manufacture of friction products, especially braking materials. It 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 was acquired by the huge automotive group Federal-Mogul. It is now part of Federal-Mogul Aftermarket UK Limited. The 27-acre site in Caernarfon once employed more than 1,500 workers but has lain empty since 2008 when it was bought by Warwickshire-based property developers the St Francis Group. There are now plans along with the adjacent Plas Brereton Estate to make a holiday park.

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