 With our history originating back over 50 years to the original Jackson & Bradwell company. Jackson & Bradwell were based in Birmingham England and produced a wide variety of machines that have now progressed to Universal Balancing modern market leading machines of today. The first Jackson & Bradwell machines were mechanical resonance machines which were purely mechanical this later developed into electronic direct reading machines with hard suspension.
In the early 1980's Jackson & Bradwell changed to BTD Ltd. BTD further developed the measuring system to use solid state electronics then progression to PC based systems using DOS the BTD-UNI32. In 1996 Universal Balancing became sister companies with BTD and worked on many joint projects and developments. Universal Balancing brought new ideas and modern business principles. In 2004 merged BTD within Universal Balancing and relocated staff, development, software and equipment to Universal Balancing's Bristol head quarters.
In 2002 the Market Leading unbeatable BTD-UNI44 Windows based 4 Channel measuring instrument was released this was possible because of a long line of history. |
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Universal Balancing’s head quarters in Bristol is sited on the old Douglas Motor Cylcle facility. The Douglas Motor Cycle company was long lived and founded in 1910 by William and Edward Douglas, two former blacksmiths, in Bristol UK. After a successful endurance test from John O’Groats to land’s End (39hours 40 mins) the Douglas achieved almost instantaneous popularity and by 1911 200 men were employed at the Kingswood works. The Douglas flourished in the 1920’s and 30’s and was a great favourite with speedway riders; the marque survived until 1956. The site then homed other companys like Bendix and in the 1990’s the site was redeveloped and now home to Universal Balancing Ltd. hence the road name of Douglas!