T Cooke & Sons
Thomas Cooke founded his optical instrument firm in York in the UK in 1837. He died in 1868 but his sons continued to operate the firm, which was then known as T Cooke & Sons, until 1922. In 1915 the firm was acquired by Vickers, and in 1922 it was merged with the instrument firm Troughton & Simms to form Cooke, Troughton & Simms. In 1928 they became a wholly owned subsidiary of Vickers. In 1963 they became Vickers Instruments.
Although primarily known for their telescopes and other optical instruments, T Cooke & Sons did distribute meteorological instruments.
From 1907, this is a catalog excerpt from T Cooke & Sons showing the meteorological instruments they carried (22 pages):
The following is a catalog of meteorological instruments distributed by T Cooke and Sons. It predates the 1922 name change, but is from the early 20th century. Pages 77 through 80 were missing from the original and are therefore missing from the PDF copy (44 pages):
