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Kennedy and Sons built propellers, wind-less drive shafts and other integral equipment for every boat committed to war. A Kennedy propeller drove the lead boat in the D-Day invasion. The company’s contributions during the war have been recognized by the crown and duly noted, and the National Film Board documented their wartime production.
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Manufactured by William Kennedy and Sons Limited in Owen Sound, Grey County. Dates to the 20th-century. Belonged to William "Bill" D. Wilson. He worked as a Paymaster at William Kennedy and Sons Limited. This company manufactured most of the propellers in North America in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1961, it became known as Black Clawson-Kennedy.
In the 1950s, Wm. Kennedy & Sons Ltd. was sold by the Kennedy family to an English company (sold to the Millspaugh Group of Sheffield, England in 1951). Later on, in October, 1961, it was sold again and became the Owen Sound branch of "Black Clawson-Kennedy" (BCK), when it was purchased by the Black-Clawson company of Hamilton, Ohio and changed its name.
t the William Kennedy & Sons, Ltd. apprenticeship graduation banquet held in Owen Sound, Ontario in September 1947, T. Dowsley Kennedy, the president of the 90-year-old-foundry and metal works, announced that “so far as is known” his was “the old-est firm in the nation still controlled by the same family which founded it.”1 This
Jun 24, 2016 · In 1899, he set up a steel foundry. By 1911, Wm. Kennedy and Sons had grown from an essentially, one-man operation to employ 150 area residents in the manufacture of such products as turbines, mill gearings, steel castings and propellers. With the onset of World War I, Kennedys became important contributors to the allied war effort.
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Feb 7, 2006 · In 1884 (by which time the company claimed to have produced 26,000 instruments) Bell formed a partnership with his son W.J. Bell (1863-1925), Mrs. W.B. Kennedy, and A.W. Alexander. The younger Bell sold the firm to an English syndicate in 1888, at which time the name was changed to the Bell Organ and Piano Co, Ltd, and the manufacture of pianos was begun.
1986: Company adopts the name GKN plc; most of its remaining steel operations are divested. 1988: A minority stake in Westland, a U.K. helicopter maker, is acquired. 1994: GKN gains full control of Westland through a hostile takeover. 1995: Company makes its final exit from steelmaking.
