History
Crompton & Co. was a lamp manufacturer founded by R.E.B. Crompton in 1878. The company was widely known for installing the first electric lighting in Windsor Castle, Holyrood Palace and other prominent buildings. F & A. Parkinson Ltd. was a successful electric motor manufacturing company founded by two brothers, Albert and Frank Parkinson who was a former student, and later a major benefactor of Leeds University. The university's Parkinson Building, opened in 1951, is named in his honor. Crompton Parkinson was taken over by the Hawker Siddeley aerospace group in 1968. The company's subsequent history is hard to trace, but it appears that Crompton Lighting is now owned by Gerard Lighting, while Crompton Parkinson is now owned by Brook Crompton, both of which are subsidiaries of larger conglomerates.
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