Ferodo
Sign in to saveFerodo is a British brake company based in Chapel-en-le-Frith in High Peak, Derbyshire.
Key dates
- Inception
- 1897
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- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- Bradford
- Official website
- www.ferodo.com/fr-fr/Pages/home.aspx
- Image
- Ferodo Bridge Camden Road.JPG
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Ferodo is a British brake company based in Chapel-en-le-Frith in High Peak, Derbyshire.
==History== thumb|A Ferodo bridge at Camden Road railway station thumb|Ferodo's Caernarfon factory was opened by [[Princess Margaret in 1964]] 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 was the first company to use asbestos for brake linings and developed the first modern brake friction materials.