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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

British Auxiliaries

From Graces Guide

of Helen Street, Govan, Glasgow

Previously known as Fiat British Auxiliaries

1931 Company reconstructed. An arrangement was made with Aktiebolaget Atlas Diesel Works, of Stockholm, to construct two-stroke cycle airless-injection oil engines of the "Polar" design. The parts of British Polar engines would be interchangeable with the Swedish engines; the engines were to be marketed by the Atlas Diesel Company, Ltd., of London.

1944 In August the company changed its name to British Polar Engines Limited.[1]

Chairman of the company: Sir Frederick Lewis; other directors: Mr. J . C. Cowan, Viscount Glenapp, Mr. E. W. Harvey, Mr. I. P. R. Napier, and Mr. John H. Silley.

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Sources of Information

  1. Shipbuilding and Shipping Record January 25 1951