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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.

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Edinburgh Evening News - Friday 18 April 1913
  2. ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:1 January 1918 Issue:30453 Page:198
  3. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette Publication date:10 October 1919 Issue:13512 Page:3399
  4. ↑ Liverpool Journal of Commerce - Friday 12 September 1919
  5. ↑ Engineering 1928/01/13
  6. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries