Surridge Sport
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| Sportswear | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | 1867 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Burnley |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Products 📟 | Football Cricket |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.surridgesports.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Surridge Sports are a sportswear company who specialize in all sports including football and cricket. They make the kits of many professional teams in football, cricket, rugby and supply thousands of schools, colleges and universities with sportswear. The company was established in 1867 by Percy Stuart Surridge and is one of the oldest sports brands in the world. In the 1950s the brand grew, with Percy's grandson Stuart Surridge taking on the business, and the launch of the SS branding.[1]
Cricket Bats[edit]
The company provided Cricket Bat's for some of the biggest names including WG Grace,[2] Donald Bradman,[3] Viv Richards, Clive Rice, Lance Klusener, Herbert Sutcliffe and Duleepsinhji,. [4][5] They were made in Aldermaston.[6][7] The SS logo was also used by Indian firm Sareen Sports and caused confusion amongst fans.[8]
Surridge Sports entered the big hitter cricket bat race in the late 70s with the Jumbo,[9] competing against Slazenger V8 and V12, Gray-Nicholls GN100 Scoop and the Saint Peter.[10] Graham Gooch scored his record score of 333 in 1990 against India using a Surridge Turbo bat, designed by John Surridge.[11][5] It was a successful bat due as two pieces of willow were stuck together, and the glue flexed when hit by the ball which assisted in the transfer of the batsmen power to the ball.
Snooker Cues[edit]
Surridge provided cues to Jimmy White, selling a range of Jimmy White branded cues.[12]
Football[edit]
The Surridge Cobbler is claimed to be the first lace less football, and was used in the Bundesliga[13] and was used in the 1976 League Cup final.[14] In 1979 the English Football League designed a ball to be used across the competition. It was manufactured by several companies including Mitre, Minerva and Surridge Sports which called theirs the UFO. In the FA Cup in 1980 John Fashanu scored his memorable goal for Norwich City F.C. against Liverpool F.C with a UFO ball.[15] In 1991 Surridge signed a sponsorship deal with Paul Gascoigne.[16][17]
Tennis[edit]
In 1923 Surridge received a patents for their design in reinforcing racquets.[18]
Ownership[edit]
In 1993 Stuart Surridge died, and the family sold the company to Dunlop-Slazenger.[19] In 2001 the Stuart Surridge name and branding was sold to an Indian/South African partnership.[16]
It was purchased by the present owners SDL Group Ltd in 2005 and now operates out of premises in Burnley, Lancashire.
Legacy[edit]
John, Stuart's son and Charlotte, his granddaughter, set up a bat maker in 2018 called Swannack. [5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Stuart Surridge Co. Ltd". Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Cricket 1901". acscricket.com. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Cricket, 26th April 1934". getty images. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ↑ "SS Jumbo". Sky Sports. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Talking Bats With Charlotte Surridge". 5 February 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Sawbench, Cricket Bat". Aldermaston History. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Obituary Stuart Surridge - Wisden". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "How the cricket bat landscape has changed as new brands rise and old favourites die-off". The Courier Mail. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ↑ "SS Jumbo". Sky Sports. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ↑ "The return of the greatest cricket bat". The Guardian. 10 January 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Why cricket forced batsmen to give up scientific advances". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Peter Francis Antique and Fine Art Sale - Wednesday 11th February 2015". UK Auctioneers. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ Surridge "You gotta have balls" Check
|url=value (help). ESPN FC. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2021. - ↑ "THE FOLLOWING THREE LOTS RELATE TO THE CAREER OF MIKE DOYLE A STUART SURRIDGE, COBBLER WHITE LEATHER FOOTBALL". Christies. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ Template:Cite ref
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Surridge since 1867". Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "New Zealand v Australia: second Test, day three – as it happened". The Guardian. 22 February 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "GB217778A Improvements in lawn tennis and the like racquets". Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Stuart Surridge and Company Limited 1867". The Science Museum. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
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