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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Keighley Gas and Oil Engine Co

From Graces Guide
Exhibit at Geevor Tin Mine Museum. Portable rock breaking machine.
1925.Letter correspondence to Mr W. A. Sycamore dealing with redundancy after the firm went into liquidation.
1925.
1928.
1928.

of Imperial Works, Keighley.

1908 Founded at the Alexandra Works, Keighley to produce gas, oil and spirit engines. main director was Robert Clough

1911 Company moved to Imperial Works

1914 Manufacturers of "Imperial" horizontal and vertical gas, oil and spirit engines; suction gas plants. [1]

1919 The CD model introduced rated at 9 bhp.

c1928 Company went into liquidation.

Later the engines may have been made by Beechey, Lund and Co or Beechey, Many and Co


See Also

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Sources of Information

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