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 167,711 pages of information and 247,104 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.

Godiva Fire Pumps Co: Difference between revisions

From Graces Guide
PaulF (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
mNo edit summary
Line 5: Line 5:
1985 '''SPP''' was floated as a public company
1985 '''SPP''' was floated as a public company


1988 Godiva Fire Pumps was part of [[Sigmund Pumps|SPP]] when it was acquired by [[Braithwaites]], engineering and cleaning equipmnt group, making a larger business in specialist equipment hire; Braithwaites' subsidiary Andrews would be put together with SPP's Sykes subsidiary<ref> The Times, April 29, 1988</ref>
1988 Godiva Fire Pumps was part of [[Sigmund Pumps|SPP]] when it was acquired by [[Braithwaites]], engineering and cleaning equipment group, making a larger business in specialist equipment hire; Braithwaites' subsidiary Andrews would be put together with SPP's Sykes subsidiary<ref> The Times, April 29, 1988</ref>


==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 06:38, 11 September 2013

Early 1970s Coventry Climax's fire pump business was sold into private ownership, and the Godiva Fire Pumps Co was formed in Warwick.

1983 SPP was bought out of the Booker Group

1985 SPP was floated as a public company

1988 Godiva Fire Pumps was part of SPP when it was acquired by Braithwaites, engineering and cleaning equipment group, making a larger business in specialist equipment hire; Braithwaites' subsidiary Andrews would be put together with SPP's Sykes subsidiary[1]

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Times, April 29, 1988