Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Bryce

From Graces Guide

of Kelvin Works, Hackbridge, Surrey

1926 Private company.

1933 "Backed by important industrial interests, this company has, during the past year or two, been developing a new type of injection pump and nozzle of British design for oil engines, and has established at Hackbridge a production plant embodying only the latest machines and capable of extensive development."[1]. Patented design of fuel pump.

The equipment is available for stationary, marine and road-vehicle oil engines, and the pump, which is of the plunger type, is supplied either complete with camshaft, or in non-camshaft form, for engine makers desiring to use their own camshafts. [2]

1933 Paper on the fuel injection equipment works at Hackbridge.[3]

1937 Presumably formed Bryce Building and Construction Co as a subsidiary

1938 Transformers for Trolleybus Rectifier Sub-station by Bryce Ltd

1939 Patent to Herbert Arthur Garrett and Bryce Ltd for "Improvements in and relating to hydraulic governors"

1940 "Up to the outbreak of hostilities, Bryce fuel-injection equipment for compression-ignition engines was made by Bryce, Ltd., at Hackbridge, Surrey. Wyndham Hewitt, Ltd, with which is associated Lagonda Motors, has now formed a subsidiary company, Bryce Fuel Injection, Ltd., with headquarters at the Lagonda Works, at Staines."[4]

1961 Manufacture precision turning in steel, brass and aluminium; plating and anodising; light electrical assemblies and prototypes; heat treatment; compression and transfer mouldings. 150 employees.

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Sources of Information

  1. Commercial Motor 3rd February 1933
  2. Commercial Motor 3rd February 1933
  3. The Engineer 1933/02/03
  4. Commercial Motor 18th May 1940