Everything about Frederick Richard Simms totally explained
Frederick Richard Simms (1863–
1944-04-22) was a
British engineer and motor industry pioneer. Simms was one of the founding fathers of the
British motor industry, he took part in the first
London to Brighton run, and he also founded the
Royal Automobile Club, and the
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Biography
Frederick Simms was born in 1863. He was brought up in
Hamburg, serving an engineering apprenticeship in Germany. In 1889 Simms met
Gottlieb Daimler, from whom he purchased the rights for the use of Daimler's
internal combustion engine in the UK, which paved the way for the start-up of the
British motor industry.
Simms founded the
Daimler Motor Syndicate in 1893, possibly the UK's first motor company.
and in June 1895 Simms and
Evelyn Ellis brought one of the first petrol–powered cars into the UK.
In 1896 Simms became the first consulting engineer of the
Daimler Motor Company, a company established by the purchaser's of his Daimler patents.
Later that same year Simms, and Gottlieb Daimler, took part in a trip from London to Brighton in celebration of the lifting of the Locomotive Act which had required vehicles to travel no faster than —this trip established the
London to Brighton run.
Simms founded the Automobile Club of Great Britain (later the
RAC) in 1897.
Simms acquired some of the foreign patent rights to the petrol engine and in 1900 he set up Simms Manufacturing Company Ltd. In 1902 he founded, and was elected the first president of the
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
In 1907 he established the Simms Magneto Company Ltd after he'd obtained UK
magneto manufacturing rights from
Robert Bosch.
Besides working on magneto ignition for cars, Simms made Simms-Welbeck cars, lorries and marine engines, invented the first rubber
bumper and a prototype
indicator, agricultural vehicles, military vehicles and guns, and aeronautical devices.
In 1913 Simms started Simms Motor Units Ltd, which in
World War 1 became the principal supplier of magnetos to the armed forces. In 1920 the company took over a former piano factory in
East Finchley,
north London. During the 1930s the factory developed a range of Diesel fuel injectors. In
World War II the company again became the principal supplier of magnetos for aircraft and tanks, also supplying
dynamos,
starter motors, lights, pumps, nozzles,
spark plugs and coils.
The East Finchley factory continued to expand after the war, eventually reaching, and the company took over many other other firms. Simms Motor Units was itself taken over by
Lucas CAV in 1968. Manufacturing in East Finchley was steadily run down as UK manufacturers lost market share. The factory closed in 1991 to be redeveloped for housing. It is commemorated by Simms Gardens and Lucas Gardens.
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