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PROGRESS OF SIMMS EQUIPMENT QPEAKING at the recent annual +-../
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general meeting of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., the chairman, Mr. Tom Thornycroft, reported a record year of continued progress, With the highest sales and profit figures in the history of the company.
During the year, the company had acquired additional plant and equipment to the value of £113,036. Efficiency and hard work had enabled improved products to be marketed at a relatively small increase in price over the 1939 level. Fuel-injection equipment was being sold in large quantities, and included a contract from the Ford concern for the supply of this for the new oil-engined Major tractors.
The oil engine had be
come pre-eminent down to vehicles of medium size; agricultural and industrial tractors, and the demands for the company's technical advice and service in this field were constantly increasing. It had experimental and research laboratories with the most up-to-date equipment, but it was in no way neglecting its activities in the electrical field.