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274:, Sudan. The British pump suppliers did not have the capacity to deliver the pumps fast enough. James Simpson & Co. learned of the Worthington company because of this order, and on 13 December 1885 signed an agreement with the Worthington Pumping Engine Company under which they gained exclusive manufacturing rights for Worthington pumps in Britain. The pumps would be sold in the English and Colonial markets.
201:. These were both part-time jobs, and James Simpson had time to operate an engineering consultancy, one of the first. In 1828 James Simpson built the first slow sand filter bed in London for the Chelsea waterworks. By the 1830s James Simpson was devoting most of his time to his engineering consultancy. He provided designs of waterworks for the cities of
254:, and constructed water works. James Simpson & Co. were installed in a new Thames-side factory in Pimlico by 1860. Some of their output in the years that followed included a steam locomotive for the Southampton Dock Company (1866), two rotative beam engines for Tunbridge Wells Waterworks (1866), two beam pumping engines for the
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406:, a British pump manufacturer, in December 1968. In 1969 Studebaker-Worthington acquired Worthington-Simpson. After some negotiation, Weir's acquired 50% of Worthington Simpson. A new joint-venture company named Worthington Weir was set up to handle international sales of the two parent companies.
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Simpson and Co became incorporated as a public company. In 1895 James Simpson and Co were described as crane, pump, iron girder and iron tank manufacturers, hot water apparatus makers, ironfounders, with headquarters at 101 Grosvenor Rd, London SW. In 1899 James Simpson and Co
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Simpson and Worthington companies merged to become the Worthington Pump Co. In 1906 James Simpson and Co. Ltd of London signed a contract with York Waterworks to manufacture and supply a Worthington Horizontal Triple Expansion Surface Condensing Pumping Engine. The same year
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Thompson was created in 1825 as a partnership between James Simpson, engineer of the Chelsea Waterworks, and George Thompson, engine maker. The partnership was dissolved in 1836. James Simpson founded James Simpson & Co., a manufacturer of steam engines and pumps, and made several
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Worthington Simpson. American associates had gained control of the company. Alfred Telford Simpson, who had been chairman of James Simpson & Co., continued as chairman of Worthington-Simpson until his death in 1928. Worthington-Simpson was one of the
308:, Cornwall. Water was piped out by Cornwall's first electrical centrifugal pumps, made by Worthington, at the rate of 1,000 imperial gallons (4,500 L; 1,200 US gal) per minute. In 1910 the company built a horizontal pumping engine for the Waddon Pumping Station at
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that could project liquid at 3,400 litres (750 imp gal; 900 US gal) per minute, producing a huge jet of flame. In 1961 Worthington-Simpson was described as manufacturers of pumps, compressors and heat exchange equipment. The company had 1,300 employees.
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used by his company. The workshop would be taken over by his sons and developed into a large steam engine and pump manufacturing business. In 1799 Simpson was engineer of the
Liverpool and Harrington Waterworks Company, which combined with the Bootle Waterworks Company with
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Worthington pumping engines were almost entirely replacing beam engines and other types of fly-wheel engine. The engines were more powerful and consumed less coal for the same amount of work. James Simpson and Co were the sole licensees for this type of engine.
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Simpson and Co was registered in 1885. That year the Worthington Pumping Engine Company, representatives of Worthington pumps of the United States, obtained an order from the British Army to deliver ten high-pressure pumps to deliver water needed by the
402:. The merger was completed in November 1967, creating a company with $ 550 million of assets. The new company owned 10% of Newark-based Worthington-Simpson. Studebaker-Worthington made an offer to buy Worthington Simpson, which was followed by an offer from
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pumping station, working alongside two single-cylinder engines from James Watt & Co. The exterior disguised the station as a "Scottish
Baronial" castle. In 1857 James Simpson, Junior, joined the company, which made pumping equipment, particularly
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Worthington pumping engine for Bournemouth Waterworks in 1889, and a Direct-Acting Pump for the Hammersmith Station of London's Metropolitan Water Board in 1890. An 1891 report on a pump recently installed in
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merged their pump manufacturing operations into Ingersoll Dresser Pumps Inc. This was acquired in 2000 by Flowserve Corporation, which had been formed in 1997 through a merger of Durco International and BW/IP International.
335:. They are thought to have been the second largest such engines in the world. They came into operation in 1929, and continued to be used until 1980. They and the building they are in have now become the
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Worthington-Simpson built a horizontal engine with gear drive for Eastbury Station of the Watford Waterworks in 1920. The company designed and built two triple expansion steam engines for the
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improvements to the design of these machines. In the 1830s his brother William (1809-1864), the sixth son of Thomas Simpson, ran the engine-making factory in
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through a merger in 1903, renamed Worthington-Simpson in 1917. It continued as an independent pump manufacturer until 1969, when it became a subsidiary of
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Waterworks (1870) and a vertical rotative engine for Weston-super-Mare Waterworks (1871).
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