W. P. Thompson & Co.

British chartered patent agent W. P. Thompson & Co. was recorded as being at 77 Market Street, Bradford; at 6 Lord Street, Liverpool; and at 285 High Holborn, London, W.C. On another occasion the firm was recorded as being at address 322 High Holborn, London, W.C. and at Liverpool and Bradford.

The founder of the agency must have been William Phillips Thompson who was also an aero inventor, and director of Planes Ltd.

This is entered as "Wm. P. Thompson & Co." is at least one patent, while addressed at 6 Lord Street, Liverpool.

Patent agent J. Owden O'Brien was successor to and late of W.P. Thompson & Co. of Manchester, U.K.

Thompson, Handbook of Patent Law in All Countries (1905) observes:

Formerly we had numerous branch agencies in Great Britain each using our name. Finding this mode of doing business unsatisfactory we abandoned it. Some of these agencies still legally describe themselves as "late W. P. Thompson & Co., of——" but we have no connection with them, and none of their principals were ever partners in this firm.

The 1920 edition of the same work lists principals of the firm. These were Thompson himself and:

• G. C. Dymond, M.I.Mech.E., F.I.C.P.A.
• H. E. Potts, M.Sc. (Liverpool), Honours in Chemistry, F.I.C.P.A.
• J. V. Armstrong, M.T.I, F.I.C.P.A.
• W. H. Beeston, R.P.A.

From page merged in here: William Phillips Thompson was a director of Planes Ltd. for 1909-1912. He was associated with an ornithopter, 1912. He may have been the patent agent for a design rather than a designer and/or builder himself.

To do -- move info about him personally to page on him personally.

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Patents for which W. P. Thompson & Co. was the patent agent

• Patent GB-1893-16269 (Inventors: Gustav Koch, English title: Flying Machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1892-73603)
• Patent GB-1894-7919 (Inventors: Joseph Hofmann, English title: Aërostation, and Apparatus employed therefor)
• Patent GB-1897-15822 (Inventors: François Crozet, English title: Cylinder and Piston Motors)
• Patent GB-1902-14116 (Inventors: Joseph Hofmann, English title: Improvements in Aeroplanes, Kites and the like., Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1902-143820)
• Patent GB-1902-26582 (Inventors: Alfred Chiodera, English title: Air Balloons)
• Patent GB-1904-24807 (Inventors: Gustav Knäpper, English title: Improvements in the Propulsion of Bodies Floating in the Air, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1903-160742)
• Patent GB-1906-29641 (Inventors: Charles Daniel Alexandre Pasteur • Alfred Ernest Duquesne • Louis Lazare Dockes, English title: Improvement in Apparatus for Controlling the Filling or Inflation of Expansible or other Receptacles with Air or Gas, Applicant firm: Société Duquesne et Dockes Manufacturers)
• Patent GB-1907-15890 (Inventors: Frederick Henry Addis, English title: Flying machine)
• Patent GB-1908-21754 (Inventors: Daniel-Alexis-Léopold Grosclaude, English title: Propeller, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1907-382895)
• Patent GB-1909-12907 (Inventors: Joseph Allison Steinmetz, English title: Improvements in balloons)
• Patent GB-1910-14114 (Inventors: Arthur Fox, English title: Steering apparatus for air ships, submarines and the like)
• Patent GB-1910-295 (Inventors: Paul-Nicolas Lucas-Girardville, English title: Gyroscopic Stabilising Mechanism for Apparatuses Moving in Fluid Media, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-407737)
• Patent GB-1910-5703 (Inventors: Roy Louis Matteson, English title: Improvements in or connected with Flying Machines)
• Patent GB-1910-5836 (Inventors: Daniel-Alexis-Léopold Grosclaude, English title: Improvements in dirigible balloons, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-400629)
• Patent GB-1911-17418 (Inventors: August Wendtland, English title: Guidance of Aeroplanes, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1911-8326)
• Patent GB-1911-22809 (English title: Improvements in Flying Machines, Applicant firm: Planes Ltd.)
• Patent GB-1911-23512 (Inventors: Cleland Davis, English title: Means for Firing Projectiles from Air Craft, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1915-1141042)
• Patent GB-1911-2521 (Inventors: Joseph Cordner, English title: Improvements relating to Flying Machines)
• Patent GB-1911-27282 (Inventors: Alexander von Willisch, English title: Improvements in and relating to Flying Machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1911-01-09-Willisch)
• Patent GB-1911-27405 (Inventors: Alexander von Willisch, English title: Improvements in and relating to Flying Machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1911-10-20-Willisch)
• Patent GB-1911-8326 (Inventors: August Wendtland, English title: Air-ship)
• Patent GB-1912-10010 (Inventors: Alexander von Willisch, English title: Improvements in Starting Devices for Flying Machines)
• Patent GB-1912-16890 (English title: Improvements in airplane steering by way of wing specifications, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1911-263643, Applicant firm: E. Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau G.m.b.H.)
• Patent GB-1912-20751 (Inventors: Alwin Viëtor, English title: Improvements in or relating to Propelling Mechanism of Aeroplanes and Air Ships)
• Patent GB-1911-9292 (Inventors: Jean-Philippe Burger • Wilhelm Müller, English title: Earth Anchor, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1911-237195)
• Patent GB-1912-9930 (Inventors: Alexander von Willisch, English title: Improvements in Launching Missiles from Flying Machines)
• Patent GB-1913-13650 (English title: Wing for Flying Machine, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1912-12-09 E. Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau G.m.b.H., Applicant firm: E. Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau G.m.b.H.)
• Patent GB-1913-4191.18112 (Inventors: Franz Xaver Wels, English title: An exhaustively counterbalanced human-powered flying machine with flapping wings, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1913-4191 • Patent AT-1912-75092)
• Patent GB-1913-4191.29772 (Inventors: Franz Xaver Wels, English title: An exhaustively counterbalanced human-powered flying machine with flapping wings, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1913-4191 • Patent AT-1912-75092)
• Patent GB-1913-4191 (Inventors: Franz Xaver Wels, English title: A type of winged flying machine in which weight, levered wings, and factors including human "muscular effort" are arranged as to most greatly facilitate lift, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1912-75092)
• Patent GB-1913-513 (English title: Elastic girder for curved airplane wings, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1912-02-02 E. Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau G.m.b.H., Applicant firm: E. Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau G.m.b.H.)
• Patent GB-1913-5246 (Inventors: Hellmuth Hirth, English title: Airplane, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1912-266327)
• Patent GB-1913-8180 (Inventors: Joseph Allison Steinmetz, English title: Improvements in airplanes)
• Patent GB-1914-10402 (English title: Airplane with improved pivoted frame for travelling wheels, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-273516, Applicant firm: E. Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau G.m.b.H.)
• Patent GB-1914-9876 (Inventors: Gustav Lilienthal, English title: Improvements in and connected with Wings for Aeroplanes and the like, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-287314)
• Patent GB-1915-13213 (Inventors: Henry Wilson Fox, English title: Improvements to Range-finders)
• Patent GB-1915-14379 (Inventors: Henry Wilson-Fox, English title: Improved Range-finder, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1915-13213)
• Patent GB-1915-16821 (Inventors: Frederick Handley Page, English title: Improvements in or relating to the Covering Fabric or Aeroplanes and the like)
• Patent GB-1918-122164 (Inventors: Pieter Barteld Van Leggelo, English title: Improvements in and relating to Air-craft of the Helicopter Type, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1918-1435190)
• Patent GB-1918-126909 (Inventors: Hjalmar Pålson, English title: Aircraft, Supplementary to patent: Patent SE-1917-46288)
• Patent GB-1920-148440 (English title: Floats for Giant Flying Machines, Applicant firm: Zeppelin-Werke G.m.b.H.)
• Patent GB-1920-148441 (English title: Seaplane, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1917-Zeppelin-Werke, Applicant firm: Zeppelin-Werke G.m.b.H.)
• Patent GB-1920-148442 (English title: Sea Plane, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1917-306449, Applicant firm: Zeppelin-Werke G.m.b.H.)

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