Hardy Spicer is a brand of automotive transmission or driveline equipment best known for its mechanical constant velocity universal joint originally manufactured in Britain by Hardy employing patents belonging to US-based Spicer Manufacturing. Hardy and Spicer soon became partners. Later Spicer became Dana Holding Corporation.
Since the commercial success of front wheel drive cars began in the 1960s the industry manufacturing universal joints has grown enormously.
The Hardy Spicer and Laycock Engineering group of businesses, later known as Birfield, have been part of the GKN Driveline group since 1966.
in Britain by Hardy employing patents belonging to US-based Spicer Manufacturing. Hardy and Spicer soon became partners. Later Spicer became Dana Holding...
William Michael HardySpicer, Baron Spicer, PC (22 January 1943 – 29 May 2019) was a British politician and life peer who was a Conservative member of...
mechanisms Spicer joint, after Clarence W. Spicer and the Spicer Manufacturing Company, who manufactured U joints HardySpicer joint, after the HardySpicer brand...
Stock Exchange. In 1925, Spicer expanded internationally taking a holding in licensee in England, Hardy, renamed HardySpicer. In 1946, Dana became president...
contained this description: "the power take-off is driven through a HardySpicer propeller shaft from the main gearbox output and two interchangeable...
a new holding company, Birfield Limited, along with HardySpicer. Both Laycock and HardySpicer made transmission or driveline components for the automotive...
Engineering later best known as a postwar overdrive manufacturer, and HardySpicer Limited of Birmingham, England, also a manufacturer of constant-velocity...
bought CVJ market leaders Birfield Industries with its subsidiaries HardySpicer and Laycock Engineering with their interests and subsidiaries in Europe...
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