John Thompson Limited was a major engineering business based in Wolverhampton, in its latter years offering products for the nuclear engineering industry.
The company was founded by William Thompson, in or around 1820, in Wolverhampton, as a general engineering business.
During World War I it made cowlings for Sopwith aircraft and, in World War II, it made airscrews for Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft.
[1] In the 1950s, as part of a consortium with AEI, the company was awarded a contract to supply boilers and reactor pressure vessels for the Berkeley nuclear power station.
[2] In 1970, the business was acquired by Clarke Chapman[3] and, in 2004, the Ettingshall Works was closed.