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1983 SPP was bought out of Booker
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 equipmnt group, making a larger business in specialist equipment hire; Braithwaites' subsidiary Andrews would be put together with SPP's Sykes subsidiary[1]
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