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Peter Hooker Limited owned an engineering business originally established in 1827 and carried on under the name Messrs Peter Hooker〔 *Peter Hooker (1817-1902) Printer's Engineer and inventor (Obituary, page 260, ''The British Printer'', vol. 15, Maclean-Hunter 1902) patents for: railway ticket printing machine, hydraulic guillotine, envelope presser, die stamper etc. Brick-making machinery see Page 13 ''London Gazette'' Issue 23487 published on the 13 April 1869. *Benjamin Hooker (1857-1932) Marine Engineer (''The Times'' Feb 05, 1932; pg. 1; Issue 46049 and Jun 23, 1932; pg. 8; Issue 46167)〕 as printers' engineers at 12 Pump Row, Old Street Road, St Luke's,〔''The Times'', Monday, Sep 18, 1854; pg. 10; Issue 21849〕 later at Pear Tree Court, Farringdon Road, London EC.〔''The Standard'', Thursday, January 10, 1889; pg. 4; Issue 20126.〕 The limited liability company was formed to own it in 1900. Operations were moved to Black Horse Lane Walthamstow, Essex (now in London), in 1901. There being insufficient business the Walthamstow site (for sale since 1921) was sold in early 1928 and the company was voluntarily wound up by its then shareholders at the end of the same year. ==Walthamstow== The Walthamstow site was very big. Twenty years earlier the business had employed around 20 people. Peter Hooker's youngest son, Benjamin (1857-1932), sat on the board of some public listed companies. George Holt Thomas made a fortune from two popular magazines then began to manufacture aircraft. Perhaps there had been a prior link between Thomas and Benjamin Hooker through printing machinery and they decided the skills needed to make printing machinery might be turned to the new petrol engines then to aero engines. A summary of a recorded interview of Hugh Burroughes (22 December 1883 - 3 October 1985) archived by The Imperial War Museum (catalogue number 7255, production date 1983) during the period he was Holt Thomas's general manager of Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Hendon (1914-1919) refers to the establishment of a factory to manufacture Gnome engines in Walthamstow, London, 1914. Burroughes remained a significant force active in the aviation industry until he retired from the board of Hawker-Siddeley in 1966 aged 82. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Hooker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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