Griffin Engineering Co
of Kingston Iron Works, Bath
formerly S. Griffin and Co
1868 Founded by Samuel Griffin and involved in making steam engines
1880 Entered the i/c engine field with six-stroke models that were built by Dick, Kerr and Co
1892 Producing engines at their works. At the expiry of the Otto patent on four-stroke engines they commenced building these.
1898 A Griffin Duplex vertical gas engine engine with sizes up to 500 bhp
1899 Description drawings and photos of Griffin oil engine for launches, having two cylinders and one connecting rod [1]
1898 Two Duplex gas engines supplied to C. Bayer and Co's new warehouse in Golden Lane, London, for driving electric lighting generators [2]
1904 Building oil engines. Duplex two-cylinder model in sizes from 6 to 60 hp. Quadruplex four-cylinder model in sizes from 30 to 200 hp.
1909 Introduced a suction gas engine
1910 Introduced a new range of oil engines.
1910 Four-cylinder oil engine and its starting engine described and illustrated in 'Engineering' magazine [3]. Driving a Tilghman's air compressor, the unit being built to the order of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
Notes
Two of the six-stroke engines are known to survive. One at the Anson Engine Museum and the other at Museum of Bath at Work
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1899/11/24
- ↑ 'The Engineer' 20th May 1898
- ↑ 'Engineering' 28th Jan 1910
- A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1996. ISBN 1 873098 37 5