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A Jubilee Clip is a genericised brand name for a
worm drive A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm wheel (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear). The two elements are also called the worm screw and worm gear. The terminolo ...
hose clamp A hose clamp (hose clip, hose lock or Jubilee clip (UK)) is a device used to attach and seal a hose onto a fitting such as a barb or nipple. Types Many types are available, including : Screw/band (worm gear) clamps Screw clamps consist of ...
, a type of
band clamp A band clamp is a generic term for a holding device usually consisting of a strap of metal or cloth formed into a loop, with a mechanism to forcibly adjust the diameter, thereby exerting a squeezing force on an object within the loop. One type o ...
, consisting of a circular metal band or strip combined with a
worm gear A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm wheel (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear). The two elements are also called the worm screw and worm gear. The terminolo ...
fixed to one end. It is designed to hold a soft, pliable
hose A hose is a flexible hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called ''pipes'' (the word ''pipe'' usually refers to a rigid tube, whereas a hose is usually a flexible one), or more generally '' ...
onto a rigid circular pipe, or sometimes a solid spigot, of smaller diameter. Other names for the worm gear hose clamp include worm drive, worm gear clips, clamps, or just hose clips. In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some of the former British colonies, the Jubilee Clip dominated the market to the extent that Jubilee Clips tend to be known almost exclusively by their brand name.


History

The Jubilee brand clamp brand was started by Commander Lumley Robinson of the British
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, who was granted the first patent for his device by the London Patent Office in 1921 while operating as a sole trader. It is now subject to a registered trademark in many countries around the world. The design has been copied with many variations, and there are many other hose clips of a similar design.


Jubilee brand creator

Lumley Robinson was born in
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,
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, in 1877 to a family of strict Methodists. His first job was working for John Fowler's, a highly respected engineering firm in Leeds before later joining the
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. He married Emily Boyd Sykes at the Mint Chapel,
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, Leeds, on 23 October 1906 and they moved to Gillingham in Kent when Lumley was based at nearby
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, which at the time was almost exclusively dedicated to the Royal Navy. During his time in the Navy, Lumley was on HMS ''Aboukir'' when it was sunk in the
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, along with two other ships, during
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, and he spent several hours in the sea before he was rescued. Together, Lumley and Emily had four children: Henry, who went to
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and became Director of Education for Rochdale; Leonard, who joined the Royal Navy and then later worked for an advertising company called Ripley Preston in Bristol, where the first well-known advertisements for Jubilee Clips were made; Dorothy, who married and stayed in Gillingham; and John, who eventually ran the family business. During his time in the Royal Navy, it had often seemed obvious to Lumley that a new way needed to be found to attach a hose to a pipe. After leaving the Navy, he spent much time with a friend who had a
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in his garage, making things, and in particular looking for a simple and effective solution to the problem. Once he had the first clips made, he went to London every day attempting to sell them. His wife Emily had such faith in her husband that she suggested re-mortgaging their house to pay for the first lot of steel, but this was never necessary because the company became successful. Robinson collapsed and died while touring
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in
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on 20 August 1939, aged 62. His widow, Emily, died in 1985 at the age of 100.


Company

The UK declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, just 14 days after Robinson's death. Before the end of the month, the War Ministry had realized the importance of Jubilee Clips for the war effort and men arrived from the ministry to take over the company. His widow, Emily, wasn't agreeable to the idea, however. She changed her surname by
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to Lumley-Robinson and ran the business herself throughout the war. After the end of the war, she continued to run the business until her youngest son, John Lumley-Robinson, took over. He, being under 21 when his mother changed her name, had been the only other member of the family to take the surname Lumley-Robinson. During and after the war, other hose clip manufacturers started to emerge all over Europe, but Jubilee continued to be successful. The business was finally incorporated on 1 April 1948 as L. Robinson & Co (Gillingham) Ltd. Subsequently, the group grew with Jubilee Components Ltd and Jubilee Clips Ltd being formed to take on the manufacturing processes, alongside L. Robinson & Co (Plating) Ltd, an
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company established in 1968. In 1982, the group established a first overseas company when John Jennings (John Lumley-Robinson's son-in-law), founded Jubilee Clips Deutschland GmbH, in anticipation of Britain leaving the
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under growing political pressure at that time. This company continued to be a success selling Jubilee products in Germany and mainland Europe. In 2007 to 2008, the group acquired a new site in Gillingham, Kent, where all of the UK-based manufacturing and distribution activities of the UK companies of the group were consolidated on one site. This was in the same town where the first Jubilee Clips were made by the original inventor, Lumley Robinson.


See also

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Marman clamp A Marman clamp is a type of heavy-duty band clamp; it allows two cylindrical objects to be clamped together end-to-end with a ring clamp. It is sometimes also known as a "Marman ring". It consists of a circular strap with an interior V-shaped groo ...
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Cable tie A cable tie (also known as a hose tie, zip tie, or tie wrap) is a type of fastener for holding items together, primarily electrical cables and wires. Because of their low cost, ease of use, and binding strength, cable ties are ubiquitous, findi ...


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Jubilee Clips

Vintage advertisements for Jubilee Clips
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