Peter Hooker
| Formerly | Messrs Peter Hooker |
|---|---|
| Company type | Private limited company |
| Industry | Engineering, later aero engine manufacture, gauge manufacture |
| Founded | 1827 |
| Founder | Peter Hooker |
| Defunct | 1928 |
| Successor | Newall Engineering Company Limited (gauge manufacture), High Duty Alloys Limited (some plant) |
Key people | Benjamin Hooker George Holt Thomas Hugh Burroughes |
| Products | Printing machinery gauges, aero engines (Gnome Monosoupape, Le Rhône), racing car engines |
| Brands | Newall Gauges, British Gnôme and Le Rhône Engine Company |
| £200,000 (1919) (1919) | |
| Owner | George Holt Thomas/Airco (later), BSA (briefly) |
Number of employees | 1,750 (1917) (1917) |
| Divisions | British Gnôme and Le Rhône Engine Company, Newall Gauges |
Peter Hooker Limited was an engineering business originally established in 1827 and carried on under the name Messrs Peter Hooker as printers' engineers at 12 Pump Row, Old Street Road, St Luke's, later at Pear Tree Court, Farringdon Road, London EC. The limited liability company was formed to own it in 1900. Operations were moved to Black Horse Lane Walthamstow, Essex (now in London), in 1901.
There being insufficient business the Walthamstow site (for sale since 1921) was sold in early 1928 and the company was voluntarily wound up by its then shareholders at the end of the same year.