Way back in 1946 members of the Proops family opened a shop on Tottenham Court Road, close to the major London shopping district. They traded in War Surplus items as well as many other clearance or job lot lines. The principal products were medical equipment and 'technical' items from aircraft such as instrumentation and electrical components. The shop also traded in radio spares, surplus engineering and woodworking tools. Many of our customers (now youthfully middle aged!) remember being taken to the Tottenham Court Road shop as small boys by their fathers and uncles. Some even confess that the experience sparked their interest in all things mechanical. Apart from the retail shop, Proops Brothers has always appeared at retail shows and modelling events, the most famous of which is the International Model Engineering Show, held annually after Christmas at Olympia, in London. The Proops family sold the business to Linic Plastics Limited in the late eighties and the whole stock has been transferred to the present site at Fleckney, in rural Leicestershire. There is still a shop here to browse round and we are delighted to offer our customers around-the-clock access to their favourite items with our new on-line catalogue and shop. Please feel free to browse! Click here for a location map.

search | contact details | history | home | help | catalogue index | security All content copyright © Proops Brothers Limited 2000-2002 If you have any concerns about this site please contact the Proops webmaster