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Article: From the '30s, Federal-Mogul has helped Ford get its bearings.(Ford 100)(Brief Article)
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- Automotive News
- Article date:
- June 16, 2003
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Byline: Terry Kosdrosky
Henry Ford usually was quick to recognize a good innovation, and he jumped at one developed in the 1930s by Federal-Mogul Corp.
Federal-Mogul researcher E.R. Darby was a metallurgist trying to develop a better engine bearing. Darby thought a cadmium alloy would be an improvement over brass and Babbitt metals used in those days.
He tested several alloys at the Batelle Memorial Institution in Columbus, Ohio, because Federal-Mogul's relatively new lab wasn't properly equipped.
In 1932, Darby produced an alloy of cadmium, zinc and antimony. It resisted heat, corrosion and scoring better than other alloys at the ...