Advertising poster for Ferodo brake linings

Ferodo's brake linings were fitted to a wide array of aircraft, from the Blackburn Universal Freighter to the Vickers Supermaine Swift, the 1951 successor to the Spitfire.

Ferodo was founded in 1897, when Herbert Frood began his experiments into braking materials in a hut in the garden of his house in Coombs near Chapel-en-le-Frith. His patent for the improvement of brake blocks was filed in October 1900 and production began at Green Street, Gorton the following year. An increase in trade, largely resulting from a change in sales tactics - approaching the consumer rather than the manufacturer - led to Frood renting Sovereign and Howden Mills in Chapel-en-le-Frith in 1902. From 1920, the company was known as Ferodo Ltd.