Sugg's patents of Vincent Works, Regency Street, Westminster, London, SW
1837 Company established by William Sugg. [1]
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. [2]
1911 Sugg and Co exhibited a gas calorimeter, at the Physical Society's Exhibition[3]
1914 Engineers. Specialities: incandescent gas burners, lamps and lights, gas cooking stoves, gas testing apparatus, iron and brass founding. Employees 430. [4]
1961 Engineers and manufacturers of lighting, heating, cooking and ventilating apparatus, including "Halcyon" selective air heating system and "Queen Convectair" gas fires. [5]
1969 Thorn Electrical Industries acquired the company, mainly for its central heating interests[6]
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
Sources of Information
- ↑ http://www.williamsugghistory.co.uk/history.htm
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ The Times, Dec 20, 1911
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ The Times , Aug 21, 1969