The Moss Gear Company finds its origins, in Aston Manor, Birmingham, in 1910. Those engineers who established the company were not named Moss, but Duckitt. Originally from Moss Side, Yorkshire, some 85 miles north of Aston, they took their name from their hometown when establishing their first factory. At first, they began production with spiral bevel gears, and quickly added complete transmissions for motorcycles and automobiles. Having outgrown its original works, in 1920, Moss built a newer factory, just a few miles east of Birmingham at Tyburn calling it the "Crown Works."

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