Thomas Crapper. The real Crapper Story
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- Author(s) Doughty, Richard E
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2014
- Pages 163pp; illus
- Publisher Grosvenor House
- Place Published Guildford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Informative history. Chapters include: 'Yorkshire roots'; 'London apprentice'; 'Chelsea plumber'; 'Marlboro' Works'; 'Crapper catalogues'; 'Sandringham connection'; 'By appointment'; 'Patents and designs'; 'Hard times'; 'Trading partners'; 'The Wharams'; 'They think it's all over'; '... and finally'. Provides some details of suppliers of equipment to Crappers - Sharpe Brothers; Thomas Twyford and Humpherson & Co. Also touches on the business of William Humpherson, brother of Frederick, established at Newton Abbot, Devon, in the 1880s to make bricks, tiles and drainage pipes. This became known as Hexter Humpherson & Co. He also was connected with Aller Vale Pottery and Watcombe Pottery which merged to form The Royal Aller Vale & Watcombe Pottery, later Royal Watcombe