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Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 company which developed diving equipment
Diving equipment

The fundamental item of diving equipment used by divers is the Scuba sets, such as the Aqua-Lung or Rebreather. There are other important pieces of equipment that make diving safer, more convenient or more efficient....
 and breathing equipment and worked on commercial diving
Commercial Diving

Professional Diving is a type of diving activities where the divers are paid for their work. There are several branches of professional diving, the most well known of which is probably commercial diving....
 and marine salvage
Marine salvage

Marine salvage is the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo, or other property from peril. Salvage encompasses rescue towing, refloating a sunken or grounded vessel, or patching or repairing a ship....
 projects. The company advertised itself as 'Submarine Engineers'. It was founded by Augustus Siebe and his son-in-law, Gorman.

It was notable for developing the "closed" diving helmet
Diving helmet

File:Kask-nurka.jpgDiving helmets are worn mainly by professional diving engaged in surface supplied diving, though many models can be adapted for use with SCUBA equipment....
 of the standard diving dress
Standard diving dress

A standard diving dress consists of a metallic diving helmet, an airline or air hose from a surface supplied diving air diving pump, a canvas diving suit, diving knife and boots....
 and associated equipment.






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Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 company which developed diving equipment
Diving equipment

The fundamental item of diving equipment used by divers is the Scuba sets, such as the Aqua-Lung or Rebreather. There are other important pieces of equipment that make diving safer, more convenient or more efficient....
 and breathing equipment and worked on commercial diving
Commercial Diving

Professional Diving is a type of diving activities where the divers are paid for their work. There are several branches of professional diving, the most well known of which is probably commercial diving....
 and marine salvage
Marine salvage

Marine salvage is the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo, or other property from peril. Salvage encompasses rescue towing, refloating a sunken or grounded vessel, or patching or repairing a ship....
 projects. The company advertised itself as 'Submarine Engineers'. It was founded by Augustus Siebe and his son-in-law, Gorman.

It was notable for developing the "closed" diving helmet
Diving helmet

File:Kask-nurka.jpgDiving helmets are worn mainly by professional diving engaged in surface supplied diving, though many models can be adapted for use with SCUBA equipment....
 of the standard diving dress
Standard diving dress

A standard diving dress consists of a metallic diving helmet, an airline or air hose from a surface supplied diving air diving pump, a canvas diving suit, diving knife and boots....
 and associated equipment. As the helmet was sealed to the diving suit, it was watertight, unlike the previous "open" helmet systems. The new equipment was safer and more efficient and revolutionised underwater work from the 1830s.

Standard diving suit equipment was their main manufacturing operation, producing diving helmets in copper and brass. They also made frogman
Frogman

A frogman is someone who is trained to dive or swim in a military capacity which can include combat. Such personnel are also known by the more formal names of combat diver or combat swimmer....
's equipment for the British armed forces during World War 2, and later, sport scuba
Scuba set

A scuba set is an independent breathing set that provides a scuba diver with the breathing gas necessary to breathe underwater during scuba diving....
 gear. See makes of rebreather
Rebreather

A rebreather is a type of breathing set that provides a breathing gas containing oxygen and recycled exhaled gas. This recycling reduces the volume of breathing gas used, making a rebreather lighter and more compact than an open-circuit breathing set for the same duration in environments where humans cannot safely breathe from the atmosphere....
.

Siebe managed his business together with his son-in-law
Son-in-Law

Son-in-Law was an United Kingdom Thoroughbred horse racing and an influential Father, especially for sport horses.The National Horseracing Museum says that Son-in-Law is "probably the best and most distinguished stayer this country has ever known."...
 Gorman, and thus the company was called Siebe Gorman & Co.

Siebe Gorman and Co manufactured 12 bolt, 8 bolt, 6 bolt, 3 bolt, 2 bolt, no bolt, flange, and 12 bolt square corselet standard diving helmets.

For a brief history of Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd and the products that it manufactured, see .

Heinke
Heinke

Charles Edwin Heinke was the son of a Prussian immigrant to England. His father Gottlif Frederick Heinke who was a coppersmith and had a great business at 103 Great Portland Street, London, since 1819....
 Ltd in London also made diving gear and had connections with Siebe Gorman: see .

Siebe plc

The non-diving engineering side of Siebe Gorman which latterly became Siebe plc carried the Siebe name until it merged with BTR plc to form Invensys
Invensys

Invensys plc is a United Kingdom engineering company, headquartered in London, England. The company is multinational with operations in over 60 countries, employing around 23,000 employees....
 in 1999.

Timeline of Siebe plc

See also Timeline of underwater technology
Timeline of underwater technology

This is a timeline of underwater technology.The entries marked ## are about decompression tables....
.
  • Early 19th century: After the Napoleonic War Augustus Siebe moved to London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     in England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
     and settled at 5 Denmark Street in Soho
    Soho

    Soho is an area in the centre of the West End of London of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It is an entertainment district which for much of the later part of the 20th century had a reputation for its sex shops as well as its night life and film industry....
     in London, where he became an engineer
    Engineer

    An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
    . Later he started making standard diving dress
    Standard diving dress

    A standard diving dress consists of a metallic diving helmet, an airline or air hose from a surface supplied diving air diving pump, a canvas diving suit, diving knife and boots....
    .
  • mid 1941: Siebe's factory in Lambeth
    Lambeth

    Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth, although the area is now more commonly known as Waterloo, after the railway station whose viaduct separates the former centre of the village from the River Thames....
     was bombed during World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
    .
  • 1941: The company, already planning to leave London, moved to Chessington, Surrey and resumed manufacturing.
  • 1948: Siebe Gorman was making aqualungs: see Aqua-lung#"Tadpoles"
    Aqua-lung

    Aqualung was the original name for the first open-circuit Scuba sets, developed by Emile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943. It consists of a high pressure diving cylinder and a diving regulator that supplies the diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure, via a demand valve....
    .
  • around 1950: Peak production of standard diving dress.
  • 1955 or after: Siebe stops making standard diving dress.
  • 1960's: Siebe started making scuba gear aimed at the public market (sometimes using the tradenames Essgee and Essjee), although they had made it earlier for work divers and the Navy
    Navy

    A navy is the branch of a nation's military forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions....
    . They also continued to make diving bell
    Diving bell

    A diving bell, also known as a wet bell, is a cable-suspended airtight chamber, open at the bottom like a moon pool structure, that is lowered underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a small number of divers....
     equipment and pressure chambers.
  • 1961: Siebe Gorman takes over Heinke
    Heinke

    Charles Edwin Heinke was the son of a Prussian immigrant to England. His father Gottlif Frederick Heinke who was a coppersmith and had a great business at 103 Great Portland Street, London, since 1819....
    .
  • 1975: Siebe Gorman moves to Cwmbran
    Cwmbran

    Cwmbran is a new town in Wales within the Historic counties of Wales of Monmouthshire , and county borough of Torfaen. It was established in 1949 to provide new employment opportunities in the south eastern portion of the South Wales Coalfield....
     in Wales
    Wales

    native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
     in 1975 and concentrates on firefighter
    Firefighter

    Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car accidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations....
    's breathing equipment.
  • 1985: Siebe acquires CompAir
    CompAir

    CompAir is an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in compressed air and gas systems.CompAir was acquired by Alchemy Partners from Invensys, which retained a small minority shareholding....
    .
  • 1987: Siebe acquires Barber-Colman Company. (industrial automation, commercial controls, etc.)
  • 1990: Siebe acquires The Foxboro Company (industrial automation).
  • 1992: Siebe was still producing an escape gear system.
  • 1994: Siebe acquires Triconex
    Triconex

    Triconex is an Invensys company that supplies products, systems and services for safety, critical control and turbomachinery applications. Triconex products are based on patented Triple-Modular Redundancy industrial safety-shutdown technology....
    .
  • 1995 October: Siebe Gorman still had their premises at Cwmbran
    Cwmbran

    Cwmbran is a new town in Wales within the Historic counties of Wales of Monmouthshire , and county borough of Torfaen. It was established in 1949 to provide new employment opportunities in the south eastern portion of the South Wales Coalfield....
    .
  • 1997: Siebe acquires APV plc (vessel manufacturer: plant not marine).
  • 1998: Siebe acquires Eurotherm
    Eurotherm

    Eurotherm is a worldwide supplier of Control and Measurement Instrumentation to Industrial and Process Markets. They are part of Invensys plc, a leading global automation and controls company....
    , Wonderware
    Wonderware

    Wonderware is a supplier of industrial automation and information software solutions, having sold more than 500,000 software licenses in over 100,000 plants worldwide....
    , and SimSci. (SimSci makes industrial controls) Siebe Gorman sold as part of North Safety Products to Norcross Safety Products.
  • End of 1998: The plant at Cwmbran was closed and production of breathing apparatus was transferred to Dukinfield
    Dukinfield

    Dukinfield is a small town within the Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies in central Tameside on the south bank of the River Tame, Greater Manchester, opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, and is east of the city of Manchester....
     in Manchester, where they still had capability to make oxygen rebreathers, but did not make or overhaul any there.
  • 1999: Siebe acquires Esscor.
  • End of 1999: Norcross sold what had been Siebe Gorman as a going concern to an Iranian entrpreneuer Parvis Moradifor. The company was re-named Air Master Technology Limited from the name of the famous Siebe Gorman breathing apparatus.
  • 1999: BTR plc and Siebe (briefly BTR Siebe) merge to create Invensys
    Invensys

    Invensys plc is a United Kingdom engineering company, headquartered in London, England. The company is multinational with operations in over 60 countries, employing around 23,000 employees....
    .
  • 2000: Air Master Technology relocated to Swindon, Wiltshire.
  • 2001: Air Master Technology ceased trading. Remaining assets believed to have ended up in Malaysia
    Malaysia

    Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
    . A sad end to a famous manufacturer.


Product List


Rebreather equipment

This is a partial list of some of their rebreather equipment covering military and civilian, diving and non-diving. Taken from , and afterwards edited.

  • Aircrew Rebreather "Stelox"
  • Aerorlox (mine rescue, liquid oxygen)
  • Siebe Gorman Novus SCBA
  • Amphibian Mark I to Mark IV
    Mark IV Amphibian

    A Mark IV Amphibian is an early model of United Kingdom naval oxygen rebreather made by Siebe Gorman. It was arranged like a Siebe Gorman CDBA#Other similar rebreathers, but its oxygen cylinder is smaller....
     
  • ATEA Siebe Gorman
  • Universal Rebreather or CDBA
    Siebe Gorman CDBA

    The Clearance Divers Breathing Apparatus is a type of rebreather made by Siebe Gorman in England.The Royal Navy used it for many years. It was for underwater work rather than for combat diving....
     (Clearance Diver
    Clearance Diver

    A Clearance Diver was originally a specialist naval underwater diving who used explosives underwater to remove obstructions to make harbours and shipping channels safe to navigate, but later the term "clearance diver" was used to include other naval underwater work....
     Breathing Apparatus)
  • DSEA Siebe Gorman
    Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus

    The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus , was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Robert Davis , head of Siebe Gorman, inspired by the earlier Fleuss system....
  • FireOX
  • Fleuss-Davis SCUBA apparatus (see Henry Fleuss
    Henry Fleuss

    Henry Albert Fleuss was a pioneering diving engineer, and Master Diver for Siebe Gorman of London.Fleuss was born in Marlborough in 1851.In 1878 he was granted a patent for the first self contained breathing apparatus, which consisted of a rubber mask connected to a breathing bag, with 50-60% O2 supplied from a copper tank an...
    )
  • Individual scrubber
  • Lungovox (a short-duration industrial
    Industry

    An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
     oxygen rebreather
    Rebreather

    A rebreather is a type of breathing set that provides a breathing gas containing oxygen and recycled exhaled gas. This recycling reduces the volume of breathing gas used, making a rebreather lighter and more compact than an open-circuit breathing set for the same duration in environments where humans cannot safely breathe from the atmosphere....
     in a backpack box)
  • Minox
  • MRS suit
  • Oxylithe
  • P-Party (Mark I, Mark II, and Dutch )
  • Proto
    Proto

    Proto may refer to:...
  • Proto ten
  • Proton
  • Savox
  • Sladen suit
    Sladen Suit

    The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman. It is entered by a wide rubber tube at the umbilicus: this tube is folded and tied off before the diver dives....
     (as used by the British Human torpedo
    Human torpedo

    Human torpedoes or manned torpedoes were secret naval weapons of World War II. The name is most commonly used to refer to the weapons that Italy and later Britain deployed in the Mediterranean Sea and used to attack ships in enemy harbours....
     crews)
  • Salvus A.N.S
    Siebe Gorman Salvus

    The Salvus is a light oxygen rebreather for SCBA or in shallow Scuba diving. Its duration on a filling is 30 to 40 minutes. It was very common in Britain during World War II and for a long time afterwards....
  • Watchkeepersuit


Other items

  • Gasmasks.
  • Drysuits (with tradename "Frogman" when sold to the public market).


See also

  • Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd [1979] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 142, a well known UK insolvency law
    UK insolvency law

    United Kingdom insolvency law deals with the insolvency of firms in the United Kingdom. The primary pieces of legislation are the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Enterprise Act 2002....
     case involving the company.


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