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 162,255 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Record Engineering Co (of Manchester)

From Graces Guide
1914.
1917.


Record Engineering Co Ltd of Eccles, Manchester.

1914 Makers of two-stroke internal combustion engines, featuring stepped pistons (the larger diameter piston being used for scavenging) [1]

1914 February. Details of the Record engine.[2]

1918 Producing a 50-bhp two-stroke engine built on a four-cylinder Vee layout. [3]

At a later date, engines with similar features were produced by the Record Engineering Co of Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, featured in 'Engineering', 23rd September 1921. It has not yet been established whether these companies were one and the same.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1914/01/30
  2. The Autocar 1914/02/28
  3. A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1996. ISBN 1 873098 37 5