John Arthur Simmons (c1886-1960)
1899 Commenced with Merryweather and Sons
1905 Joined Wolseley-Siddeley at Crayford and later transferred to Birmingham
1911 Head of buying at Siddeley-Deasy
1960 Died. 'Mr. John Arthur Simmons, of Engadine, South Street, Atherstone, who was chief purchasing agent to the former Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Company for many years, died suddenly on Friday. He was 74. Mr. Simmons moved to Atherstone last May from Coventry. He leaves a widow and two daughters. It was in 1906 that Mr. Simmons entered the motor industry. This when he went to work with Mr. J. D. Siddeley - later Kenilworth - at the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company at Crayford, Kent. He remained with the Siddeley Company when the Hawker Siddeley Group was formed in the mid-thirties. In 1909 he joined the former Deasy Company as chief purchasing agent - from which post be retired in August. 1951. He remained with the firm when it became the Siddeley-Deasy Company in 1919, and when it became the Armtrong-Siddeley Motors Company in 1920.'[1]
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- ↑ Atherstone News and Herald - Friday 08 January 1960