The legendary sanitary ware company Thomas Crapper has joined Cord and Tearfund's global Toilet Twinning movement, linking three of its traditional high quality loos with three latrines deep in the African bush.
The famous Victorian’s name won him a place in history, but he is wrongly credited with inventing the WC. In reality the Yorkshire born plumber was Britain’s superior sanitary engineer of his day, holding four royal warrants and supplying plumbing and fittings for the Sandringham estate as well as fittings at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. He also pioneered the idea of bathroom showrooms.
Today the company continues to operate from Stratford upon Avon serving a world wide clientele. Managing Director Simon Kirby, who bought the company in l999 and began re-manufacturing the products created a century ago, said he was delighted to be a part of toilet twinning.
‘Thomas Crapper was a great sanitary pioneer who over a hundred years ago brought sanitation to the people of Britain. It is shocking that all this time later almost half of the people in the world still don’t have a crapper of their own,’ added Simon. ‘I am proud to be the first loo manufacturer to become a Toilet Twinner!’
