Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grice's Gas Engine Co

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Grice’s Gas Engine Co Ltd of Taymouth Engineering Works, Carnoustie, and Milk Street Works, Birmingham.

1905 8 HP Grice gas engine drove the machinery in the furniture workshops of S S Williams in Taranaki Street, Wellington, NZ. [1]

1909 Gas engine specialists and manufacturers of modern suction gas plants. Eight Grice gas engines, each of 110 HP, installed at Humber Cycle Co.’s works at Coventry.[2]

1910 Eight 1,000 bhp engines built for Spain

1910 Building gas engines (Scottish address) from 3 to 350 bhp. [3]

Secured an order for eight gas engines and suction plants developing 1,000 HP in total, for Godinez, Moreno, cement manufacturers in Spain[4]

1918 An auction of the effects of the McArthur, Milliken Engineering Co Ltd of Kaiwarra, NZ, included a 33 BHP gas engine.[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1]Online copy of Evening Post (Wellington, NZ), 2 November 1905
  2. [2]Online version of Kalgoorlie Western Argus, 21st September 1909
  3. A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1999. ISBN 1 873098 50 2
  4. 'Engineering' 11 March 1910
  5. [3]Online copy of Evening Post (Wellington, NZ), 13 May 1918