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History

Pegler Yorkshire was created in 2009 by the merger of Pegler Ltd and Yorkshire Fittings Ltd.

As Peglers Limited

Pegler Bros. & Company was founded in 1899 by Francis "Frank" Pegler (d. 1938) of the Northern Rubber Company of

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, Nottinghamshire, to manufacture plumbing fittings. The company was incorporated as Pegler Bros. & Company (Doncaster) Limited in 1914 and renamed "Peglers Limited" in 1932. In 1933, it employed 1,100 people. It became a public company in 1935. Another of the founders, Francis Egerton Pegler, died on 16 February 1957. The company merged with another plumbing manufacturer in 1968 to become Pegler-Hattersley.

As Yorkshire Fittings Ltd

The "Yorkshire" brand of plumbing fittings belonged to Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd of Leeds. This company was founded in 1909 on the site of the former Elmore's Depositing Co., to manufacture copper and brass tubes for boilers. The company developed corrosion-resistant alloy products such as "Bemal" brass condenser tubes, "Leespec" copper boiler tubes and "Gumal" copper/tin tubes. In 1934, the "Yorkshire" solder-ring pipe fitting was patented and launched. In 1954, the Register of Trade Marks ruled that a geographical name such as "Yorkshire" was not sufficiently distinctive to be registered as a brand name, but this did not stop it becoming a generic term for this type of pipe fitting. In 1958, the works merged with the Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) to form Yorkshire Imperial Metals. Yorkshire Copper Works (Holdings), representing the copper works, owned 50% and ICI owned the other 50%. In 1962 ICI created Imperial Metal Industries (IMI) to look after its half-share of YIM. In 1968 IMI bought Yorkshire's half-share in the business."Imperial Metal Industries Limited–Offer for Sale", ''The Times'', 27 October 1977, p.28 Yorkshire Fittings then became IMI Yorkshire Fittings.

References

{{reflist Engineering companies of the United Kingdom Companies based in Doncaster