Quote Originally Posted by Brian Morland View Post
I dont know if the original Ingersoll in America were connected. Perhaps members on that side of the pond might know. The UK Ingersoll was purchased from the liquidators and from that time was a wholly owned company. Do you know when Ingersoll Rand acquired those lock companies, Before or after the American Ingersoll Watches went into liquidation?
Ingersoll was never part of or associated with Ingersoll Rand. There has always been some confusion about that because the US military for a while used locks with the Ingersoll mechanism in them. IIRC Sargent & Greenleaf was involved in importing the locks and then selling to the military.
BBE.