Godiva Fire Pumps

At this point Leonard Lee stepped down as chairman of Coventry Climax and left the business which his father had created in 1903.

[5] In April 1988 Braithwaite Holding Company acquired SPP (and hence Godiva Fire Pumps) for £31 million.

In 1989 they put the Godiva business up for sale,[6] and later that year it was sold and merged with the US Company, Hale Products.

"A complete, self-contained unit, with a powerful petrol-driven engine, it is towed behind a lorry and will be on patrol through the streets in the event of an air raid".

After the war the Government asked Coventry Climax to develop a portable self-contained pump unit capable of delivering 350 gallons per minute.

These were pump vehicles extensively used by the auxiliary fire service during the cold war and called upon to relieve the firemen's strikes in the 1970s and 1980s.

[13] Godiva Fire Pumps continued to provide parts for the Coventry Climax forklift truck at a factory on the northern outskirts of Leamington Spa.