Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 168,998 pages of information and 247,539 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

William Sugg and Co

From Graces Guide
Cover in Exeter for a William Sugg Patent Public Lamp Meter
2025. Cover for a William Sugg Patent Public Lamp Meter, adjacent to the Stephen Holman sewer gas destructor lamp post in Richmond, Surrey
Part copy of a drawing of Sugg's Patent Public Lamp Meter [1]
2011. Sugg ventilating gas lamp at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. See here for more information about these lamps
March 1903.
December 1906.
September 1913.
April 1935.
October 1952.
1953.
1953. Portable Screen Gas Fire.

Sugg's patents of Vincent Works, Regency Street, Westminster, London, SW

1837 Company established by William Sugg.[2]

1841 Sugg, Pywell and Co, gas meter manufacturers, were at 19 & 20 Marsham St, London[3]

1860 Death of William Sugg, gas meter manufacturer, of Marsham Street.

1881 Public company. Incorporated as a limited company. The company was registered on 30 June, to take over the business of Mr. Sugg as inventor, constructor and vendor of gas-burning appliances. [4]

1887 See here for 'Modern Street Lighting by William T. Sugg, 1887.[5]

1911 Sugg and Co exhibited a gas calorimeter, at the Physical Society's Exhibition[6]

1914 Engineers. Specialities: incandescent gas burners, lamps and lights, gas cooking stoves, gas testing apparatus, iron and brass founding. Employees 430. [7]

1932 Provided gas flood lighting at a fete[8]

1952 Acquired Cowper Penfold and Co

Acquired Thomas Mattock and Co

1956 Disposed of Ranelagh Works; moved to Crawley[9]

1961 Engineers and manufacturers of lighting, heating, cooking and ventilating apparatus, including "Halcyon" selective air heating system and "Queen Convectair" gas fires. [10]

1969 Thorn Electrical Industries acquired the company, mainly for its central heating interests[11]

1983 Sugg Lighting of Crawley (is this the same company?) offered new masthead, navigational and engine room lamps identical to those in use on ships[12]

c.2000 Installed new pattern of gas lamps outside the Palace of Westminster and in Old Palace Yard[13]

See here[14] for the excellent William Sugg & Co website.

Notes

Contributor FG on 9th November 2011 writes: I went to work at Suggs of Regency Street when I was 14 in 1935 and stood at a row of lathes fed by belts from a long overhead drive shaft but had to leave after a few months because brass filings used to get into my clothing and then eventualy into my skin causing scratching all day


See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. [1] williamsugghistory.co.uk: 'Modern Street Lighting' by William T. Sugg, 1887
  2. http://www.williamsugghistory.co.uk/history.htm
  3. 1841 Directory
  4. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  5. [2] williamsugghistory.co.uk: 'Modern Street Lighting' by William T. Sugg, 1887
  6. The Times, Dec 20, 1911
  7. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  8. The Times July 6, 1932
  9. The Times Nov. 29, 1956
  10. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  11. The Times , Aug 21, 1969
  12. The Times June 11, 1983
  13. The Times Mar. 26, 2002
  14. [3] Website: William Sugg & Co 1837-1869