Zwicky Liquid Pump Co
of Belfast Road, Stock Newington, of Slough, Bucks
Zwicky Scotland (Nettings) Limited, Carron Place, Kelvin Industrial Estate, East Kilbride
1910-1970 Produced fire appliances, aircraft re-fuellers and runway sweepers etc.
1913 New Company. 'Zwicky Liquid Pump Co., 26 Frederick Street, Edinburgh (private company), to acquire the rights of Mr Jean Zwicky in a patent pump; capital, £15,000 in £1 shares'[1]
1918 Zwicky Patents Syndicate to close and Zwicky Patents Syndicate (1917) formed. Chairman is G. Kingsley.[2]
1919 Zwicky Pump Co. In Liquidation.[3]
1919 New Company. Zwicky Pump Co. Directors are; G. Kingsley, Jean Zwicky, J. R. Sowerby, E. B. Ridsdel, and E. J. Townsend.[4]
1928 Description and drawings of reciprocating pumps for handling oil [5]
1937 Pump and filter manufacturers. [6]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
By 1959 was a subsidiary of G. and J. Weir Holdings Ltd, specialists in aircraft refuelling and fine filtration.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Edinburgh Evening News - Friday 18 April 1913
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:1 January 1918 Issue:30453 Page:198
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette Publication date:10 October 1919 Issue:13512 Page:3399
- ↑ Liverpool Journal of Commerce - Friday 12 September 1919
- ↑ Engineering 1928/01/13
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- AA. [1] Image courtesy of Aviation Ancestry