Editing Chelmsford (section)

=== Hoffmann Ball Bearings ===
Hoffmann Ball bearings was a major employer in Chelmsford in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They produced ball bearings which were used for early transatlantic flight.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hoffmannbearings.co.uk/history-of-hoffmann-bearings.html|title=History of Hoffmann Bearings – All Hoffmann Bearings or Replacement Hoffmann Bearings Available|website=hoffmannbearings.co.uk|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref>

They opened a second factory at [[Stonehouse, Gloucestershire]] in the 1930s,<ref>{{Cite web |last=SoGlos |date=24 March 2021 |title=Potential buyers may already have former Spitfire parts factory in Gloucestershire in their sites |url=https://www.soglos.com/news/business/potential-buyers-may-already-have-former-spitfire-parts-factory-in-gloucestershire-in-their-sites/16070/ |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=soglos.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stroud History Website |url=http://www.stroud-history.org.uk/print.php?type=A&item_id=115 |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=stroud-history.org.uk}}</ref> alongside the [[Stroudwater Navigation]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cotswold Canals in Pictures |url=https://www.cotswoldcanals.net/hoffmans-dam |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=cotswoldcanals.net}}</ref>

The firm became Ransome Hoffmann and Pollard (R.H.P.) after Hoffman's amalgamation with [[Ransome & Marles]] and [[Pollard Ball and Roller Bearing Company]] in 1969.<ref>''The Times'', Tuesday, 14 October 1969; pg. 19; Issue 57690</ref>

The R.H.P. brand, intellectual property rights and company assets were absorbed into the Japanese [[NSK Ltd.]] bearing company in early 1990 trading as NSK-RHP Ltd. at its UK base in Newark on Trent with the historic R.H.P. name finally disappearing in 2001.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}

Most of the former Hoffman New Street factory was demolished during the summer of 1990 and the site is now occupied by the sprawling Rivermead Campus of the [[Anglia Ruskin University]].

The only connection to the company name in Chelmsford today is the RHP Bowls club located on part of the old Hoffmans Social Club site at Canterbury Way and Hoffmans Way at the corner of the old factory site at New Street and Rectory Lane.