T. Cooke & Sons
T. Cooke & Sons was an English instrument-making firm, headquartered in York. It was founded by Thomas Cooke by 1837.
History
By 1855 Thomas Cooke had built a factory at Bishophill in York.[1][2]
The firm built the clock face on the Darlington clock tower.[3]
Following the death of Cooke in 1868, the business was continued by his sons.[2][4]
In 1914, a new factory was built in Bishophill.[4] In 1915 Vickers acquired a controlling stake in the company.[1]
In 1922 Vickers merged it with Troughton & Simms to form Cooke, Troughton & Simms.[5]
In 1924 the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Vickers.[1] In 1939 another factory was built on a larger site in Haxby Road and during the Second World War, the company employed 3,300 people.[1]
In 1963 the company was renamed Vickers Instruments.[1]
In 1989 the company was sold to Bio-Rad Micromeasurements, apart from the defence products, which were sold to British Aerospace.[1]
The Haxby Road site was demolished in 2008.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Vickers Instruments - Borthwick Institute for Archives, The University of York
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.visitdarlington.com/images/icons_large/icon_pdf.gif
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Focus falls on Vickers Instruments (From York Press)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (About the merger with Troughton & Simms.)
