The Universal Water Meter Co. (UK) was a small, short‑duration Victorian water‑meter manufacturer active in the late 1880s, known only from a single surviving 1888 reference linking it to Sporton’s Patent Water Meter. No further corporate records, catalogues, or surviving meters are currently documented in public archives. Identity & Operating Period

Name: Universal Water Meter Co.

Location: Arlington Street, New North Road, London

Industry: Water‑meter manufacturing

Known product: Sporton’s Patent Water Meter

The company appears in Grace’s Guide, the UK’s largest industrial‑history index, with a single entry dated January 1888. The only confirmed product is Sporton’s Patent Water Meter, referenced in the 1888 listing.