Frederick Richard Simms

Frederick Richard Simms was a British mechanical engineer, businessman, prolific inventor and motor industry pioneer. Simms coined the words petrol and motorcar. He founded the Royal Automobile Club, and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

Simms was born in Hamburg Germany of an old Warwickshire family, the son of Frederick Louis Simms and his wife Antonia ne Hermans. His Birminghamborn grandfather had established a trading company there to support the Newfoundland fishing fleet. Frederick Richard Simms first wife was Austrian, his second, married 1910, was Mabel Louise, daughter of cotton merchant Joseph Worsley and they had two daughters, one of which was Rosemary Mabel who married the Artist Dennis Ramsay. He was educated in Germany and London and at the Polytechnischer Verein in Berlin after completing an apprenticeship with AG fur Automatischen Verkauf in Hamburg and Berlin.

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