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 162,259 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 Gas Engine and Engineering Co

From Graces Guide
1886.
1887. Atkinson's gas engine.
January 1888.
1887. Atkinson's gas engine.
1891. Atkinson's Patent.

Engineers of London.

1882 Introduced new types of internal combustion engine.

1883 Company formed with James Atkinson as managing director to build Robson-type engines

1885 Exhibited a horizontal single-acting gas engine; these were built by J. Cochrane (of Barrhead)

1892 Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition. Atkinson patent 'Cycle' gas engine. [1]

Became the British Gas Engine Co

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 1892 The Practical Engineer
  • A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1996. ISBN 1 873098 37 5