Posted by Bruce Stephenson on 28/03/2020 13:49:16:
My bad re text Larry… They said out of hand that they couldn't help. Here is the exact reply here: Unfortunately this is a very old design Doncaster Range motor we have no spares of information for these the factory where this was manufactured closed down many years ago [sic].
Maybe all their design engineers are in their early 20's and a lot younger than you or I??? Hence my post here.
Still its interesting when one considers the many hundreds of thousands of these motors that were sold all over the world, todays Brook Compton owners would be proud to think that their motors are still going strong after all these years? Surely it would be in their interest from a PR point of view, to be interested enough to both retain old drawings and offer a limited support for owners? Hey ho, the modern world aye….
Regards,
B
Lots of ways firms like Brook Compton lose track of what they did in the past. The men who designed this motor are most likely all in the great workshop in the sky. They will have left drawings, but unless the motor is still being made, they could be in an Archive. Unfortunately because archiving is expensive, there's a good chance the records are long gone. When a factory closes all the non-essentials are dumped or sold. CAD drawings may be less long-lived than paper. Produced with software that's incompatible with modern systems, or the plans are on a disc somewhere, or maybe sold to someone else.
And it could be today's enterprise has few links to the original company other than the Brand Name.
'Brook Crompton today incorporates many well known names from the history of UK electric motor production including Brook Motors, Crompton Parkinson, Electrodrives (itself including AEI and English Electric), Newman and Hawker Siddeley Electric Motors.'
'Brook Crompton Holdings Ltd, a public listed company based in Singapore. The major shareholders of the Group, ATB and Wolong are both significant manufacturers of electric motors and, as strategic supply partners to Brook Crompton enable the company to offer a wide range of motor products.'
Brook Compton Holdings Ltd is currently a subsidiary of ATB-Wolong. ATB is Austria Antriebstechnik AG, who acquired Schorch, Morley, Laurence Scott, Brook Crompton, Western Electric, and others over the last 40 years.
Today, ATB is 100% owned by Wolong, a Chinese holding company registered on the Shanghai stock exchange. The conglomerate manufactures in: Zhejiang Shangyu, Zhejiang Shaoxing, Ningxia Yinchuan , Hubei Wuhan, Beijing, Shangdong Yantai, Anhui Wuhu, Spielberg, Welzheim, Moenchengladbach, Nordenham, Leeds, Norwich, Cradley Heath, Tarnow, Subotica and Bor.
Lastly, Brook Compton would much rather sell new motors than keep old bangers going. They have to keep the wolf from the door!
Dave