Sigmund Pulsometer Pumps
1961 Booker McConnell Group, which already owned Sigmund Pumps, acquired another pump company, Pulsometer Engineering Co. This combination created one of the largest pump companies in Europe, which became known as Sigmund Pulsometer Pumps, or SPP Pumps for short.
1963 Sigmund disliked being part of a big corporation, and resigned from both Sigmund Pulsometer Pumps and Bookers.
1970 Booker Group sold the Gateshead part of SPP Pumps to Ingersoll-Rand of USA[1]
1983 SPP Pumps was bought out of the Booker Group
1985 SPP Pumps was floated as a public company, with emphasis on marketing of pumps rather than manufacturing; one of its suppliers was Kirloskar of India which owned 5 percent of the company[2]
1986 SPP Pumps acquired Henry Sykes, pump maker, which had a factory in Gloucestershire[3]. This acquisition expanded SPP Pumps' product range with the addition of vacuum-assisted self-priming pumps. SPP Pumps moved its manufacturing site from Reading to a more modern facility in Coleford.
1986 Acquired American Fire Pumps of Tennessee[4]
1987 Langham Works was renamed SPP Pumps
1988 Godiva Fire Pumps Co was part of SPP when it was acquired by Braithwaites, engineering and cleaning equipmnt group[5]
1989 Godiva was sold to a new company, Godiva Products Ltd, set up with the help of Hale Products Inc of USA who acquired Godiva Inc as part of the buyout arrangements.[6]
1989 SPP Pumps Ltd was renamed SPP Group
1995 Name changed to Sterling Fluid Products then to Sterling Fluid Systems Ltd in 1997
2003 Sterling Fluid Systems was renamed as SPP Pumps, it is owned by Kirloskar Brothers Ltd[7]