Kittoe & Brotherhood In 1867, before he had reached the age of 30, Brotherhood became a partner in the engineers and
millwrights business of Kittoe and Brotherhood in
Clerkenwell. At that time the firm's main product was brewing machinery. In 1881 the business moved to Belvedere Road, Lambeth. Brotherhood's backer
Fitzwilliam of
Milton near Peterborough and
Wentworth Woodhouse near Tinsley took over the car business naming it for
Sheffield the nearby town and the operational simplicity of his expensive cars. Stanley Brotherhood was a director then chairman of
Humber Limited until it merged with Hillman Motor Company and came under the control of the
Rootes Group in 1929.
Peter Brotherhood Limited On 16 December 1907, a private limited liability company was incorporated to own the Peter Brotherhood business. In 1920 it joined the engineering combine
Agricultural & General Engineers or AGE however AGE sold its 70 per cent share of Peter Brotherhood in late 1930 before AGE collapsed in 1932. On 29 June 1937 Peter Brotherhood became a
public company and was listed on the
London Stock Exchange a few days later. ;Products In June 1937, Peter Brotherhood's products included: high and low pressure compressors, compressors for torpedo service, torpedo tubes, Brotherhood high speed forced lubrication steam engines, steam turbines, turbo-generators, high speed diesel engines, oil and gas engines, refrigerating compressors, pumps, water cooling towers, filtering plants, fans, dynamometers, pressure gauge testing and other precision instruments. ==References==