Heinke

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Heinke (in full C.E. Heinke, submarine engineer and similar) was a diving gear making firm in London. It has now closed down.

A Prussian immigrant Gottlif Frederick Heinke founded the firm in London in 1819 as a coppersmiths. His son Charles Edwin Heinke started making standard diving gear around 1844. He made improvements which were copied by Siebe Gorman and other firms.

Some time after World War II the firm started making scuba gear.

In 1961 the firm was taken over by Siebe Gorman.

See http://www.divingheritage.com/heinke.htm for more information.

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