Pyrene moved to a new Art Deco style factory in 1930, located on the Great West Road, Brentford and established the concept of major fire demonstrations with the construction of a large demonstration ground alongside the Brentford factory, to simulate an oil storage depot. Not sure if I'll leave it as is or if I'll try to get it all cleaned up and shiny again. During World War II, Pyrene designed and manufactured ARP equipment for ordnance factories, industry and power stations. 1931 saw the company's equipment providing protection for such events as Brooklands, the RAF Pageant Hendon, and the Tidworth and Aldershot Tattoos. Free shipping on many items | Browse your favorite brands | affordable prices. Pyrene was taken over by Chubb and Sons in 1967 and continued to operate under the name Pyrene until 1971 when Chubb Fire Security Limited was formed. In 1976 Fireward Limited, manufacturers since 1964 of plastic-bodied portable dry-powder fire extinguishers also merged with Pyrene Panorama, to form the new Company, Chubb Panorama. He established what became known as the Pyrene Company of Delaware in 1909.[1]. In 1907, a Scottish engineer, unable to get financial backing in the UK, took his idea for a fire extinguisher to the US. This company was formed originally to manufacture an industrial wide-field vision safety goggle which gave rise to the name-"Panorama". The Pyrene Manufacturing Company of Canada, the CO2 Equipment Company of Canada and the American Pyrene Company were all acquired during 1953-54. By 1920 the business had a factory to manufacture soda-acid and foam fire extinguishers. In 1914, American businessman Wallace B Phillips set up the British offshoot, The Pyrene Company Limited, in London. Important contracts undertaken by the company during the late 1950s included, a smoke detection system at the BBC Lime Grove Studios in London, smoke detectors for the Bristol Britannia aircraft, CO2 fire-fighting systems for a number of British Rail diesel locomotives, and supplying fire detection and CO2 systems for Lloyd's of London. It caught my eye as I was walking around the flea market, and I thought it was a nice, old piece so I bought it. The chemical formula is C 16 H 10.This yellow solid is the smallest peri-fused PAH (one where the rings are fused through more than one face). Pyrene Phomene installations were fitted to many ships during the 1930s, and the 'car bumper' division became well established and by 1960 was producing approximately one third of the car bumpers used in the UK motor industry. The liner Queen Mary was protected by the installation of a Pyrene foam fire-fighting system in 1933. Unfortunately, this one didn't come with the bracket. Expansion was rapid with the wartime demand for fire-fighting equipment, and production of projectiles. I got this Pyrene fire extinguisher at the local flea market. In that same year a Bristol Britannia aircraft landed on a carpet of Pyrene foam at Manston piloted by Donald Chubb. The label says it's 1 quart. Fire extinguishers contain different chemicals, depending on the application. Brent continued to manufacture the firefighting chemicals globally for Pyrene for several years until Pyrene redeveloped the chemistry side of their business. The name Pyrene was epitomised by their famous 'pump' extinguisher which was installed on public transport, commercial and private vehicles throughout the western world. The factory, now known as Westlink House, is a Grade II listed building.[2]. The company moved to Grosvenor Gardens, London in 1918, and then to Stoke Newington in 1920, where a factory to manufacture soda-acid and foam fire extinguishers was established. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/chrono.html?company=baker_industries_inc, http://www.mewe.org.uk/londondeco/Factories.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pyrene_Company_Limited&oldid=967955080, Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom, Companies based in the London Borough of Hounslow, Articles needing expert attention with no reason or talk parameter, Articles needing unspecified expert attention, Articles needing expert attention from August 2010, Articles needing additional references from August 2010, All articles needing additional references, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 July 2020, at 09:53. Will It Buff? A major contract was one from the Air Ministry to supply airfield crash tenders. I've seen some like this with brackets that were for vehicle use. Might anyone know when these are from? Also in 1959 Pyrene acquired Roberts McClean who in 1931 introduced self-contained compressed air breathing apparatus to the UK and these two companies merged under the Pyrene Panorama flag.