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1375542 Bearings GKN GROUP SERVICES Ltd 21 Oct 1971 [22 Sept 1970] 48879/71 Divided out of 1375541 Heading F2A [Also in Division C7] A composite bearing component, e.g. a thin walled bearing component having a steel backing strip, comprises a matrix of good bearing metal, e.g. Pb/Sn, Sn/Cu/Pb, Sn/Cu/Sb, or Cu/Pb alloy, bronze, lead or silver, reinforced with fibres, e.g. of carbon, which have been preplated, e.g. with Cu or Sn, and which may be 2 inches to 4 feet in length, the fibres forming less than 50% by volume of the composite material, and substantially no fibres being present at the bearing surface.