Cooke, Troughton & Simms

Cooke, Troughton & Simms
Company typeSubsidiary of Vickers
IndustryScientific instruments
PredecessorsT. Cooke & Sons
Troughton & Simms
Founded1922 (1922) in York, England, United Kingdom
Defunct1988 (1988)
FateCeased trading in 1988 as part of Vickers Instruments
ProductsMicroscopes, theodolites
Number of employees
3300 (during World War II)

Cooke, Troughton & Simms was a British instrument-making firm formed in York in 1922 by the merger of T. Cooke & Sons and Troughton & Simms.