Thomas Crapper and Co

Aboard the SS Great Britain.

Thomas C and Co. Drain Cover at Dunham Massey.

May 1928.

Sanitaryware found on the SS Nomadic (1911).

1897. Sanitaryware found on the SS Nomadic.

of Marlboro' Works, 50-54 Marlborough Road (1887), later 120 King's Road, Chelsea

Plumbers and manufacturing sanitary engineers.

1861 Thomas Crapper established the business in Chelsea.

Soon gained a reputation for quality and service; counted many famous and powerful people amongst its customers. Before long orders arrived from the Royal Family and over the years the firm held four Royal Warrants. Thomas Crapper invented the bathroom showroom and he provocatively displayed his WC pans in the huge plate-glass windows: it was said that genteel Victorian ladies would faint away on the street at the mere sight of the china bowls.

1887 "CRAPPER’S Improved W.C. Apparatus. CRAPPER’S Improved Air-tight Covers for Drains. CRAPPER’S Improved Syphon Cisterns. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST ON APPLICATION. THOMAS CRAPPER PATENTEES AND’ MANUFACTURERS OF SANITARY APPLIANCES. ..."

Ceased trading in 1966.

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• [1] Museum