page_title: Frederick Richard Simms
section_title: Simms Manufacturing
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Richard Simms / Business / Simms Manufacturing
caption_attribution_description: English: 1898 Simms-Welbeck Deutsch: Simms-Welbeck (1898)
context_page_description: Frederick Richard Simms was a British mechanical engineer, businessman, prolific inventor and motor industry pioneer. Simms coined the words "petrol" and "motorcar". He founded the Royal Automobile Club, and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
context_section_description: Simms acquired some of the foreign patent rights to the petrol engine.  In 1900 he set up Simms Manufacturing Company Ltd in Bermondsey and moved the business in 1902 to Welbeck Works in Kimberley Road, Kilburn.  There they made Simms-Welbeck cars, lorries and marine engines, fire engines, agricultural vehicles, military vehicles and guns, and aeronautical devices until about 1908.   Simms invented the first rubber bumper and a prototype indicator.
caption: Simms-Welbeck 1898
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