Difference between revisions of "Sigmund Pumps"
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1985 '''SPP''' was floated as a public company | 1985 '''SPP''' was floated as a public company | ||
1986 SPP acquired [[Henry Sykes]], pump maker, which had a factory in Gloucestershire<ref>The Times, September 05, 1986</ref> | 1986 SPP acquired [[Henry Sykes]], pump maker, which had a factory in Gloucestershire<ref>The Times, September 05, 1986</ref>. This acquisition expanded SPP's product range with the addition of vacuum assisted self-priming pumps. SPP moved its manufacturing site from Reading to a more modern facility in Coleford, in the West of England | ||
1988 [[Godiva Fire Pumps Co]] was part of '''SPP''' when it was acquired by [[Braithwaites]], engineering and cleaning equipmnt group<ref> The Times, April 29, 1988</ref> | 1988 [[Godiva Fire Pumps Co]] was part of '''SPP''' when it was acquired by [[Braithwaites]], engineering and cleaning equipmnt group<ref> The Times, April 29, 1988</ref> | ||
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[[Category: Pumps and Hydraulics]] | [[Category: Pumps and Hydraulics]] | ||
Revision as of 10:18, 9 September 2013
of Gateshead and Reading
1937 Company founded.
1947 Private company.
1958 Acquired by Booker McConnell Group including subsidiaries Small Bore Heating Systems and Crewdson Hardy[1]
1961 Engineers, pumping and irrigation specialists and manufacturers of pumps, acid resisting, automatic, barrel, bilge, boiler-feed, draining, centrifugal circulating, process pumps, and ThermoPak. 850 employees.
1961 Another pump company, Pulsometer Engineering Co, joined the Booker McConnell Group. This combination created one of the largest pump companies in Europe, which became known as Sigmund Pulsometer Pumps, or SPP for short.
1983 SPP was bought out of the Booker Group
1985 SPP was floated as a public company
1986 SPP acquired Henry Sykes, pump maker, which had a factory in Gloucestershire[2]. This acquisition expanded SPP's product range with the addition of vacuum assisted self-priming pumps. SPP moved its manufacturing site from Reading to a more modern facility in Coleford, in the West of England
1988 Godiva Fire Pumps Co was part of SPP when it was acquired by Braithwaites, engineering and cleaning equipmnt group[3]
Now known as SPP Pumps, it is owned by Kirloskar Brothers Ltd[4]