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.

Marshall Drew and Co

From Graces Guide
1936 Advert for superchargers

of 140 Clarendon Road, London W11

1933 John Wilmott Marshall gained a patent on improvements in superchargers based on the Roots blower.

1935 Precision engineers[1]

1936 Fitted Marshall superchargers to MG sportcars[2] based on the Roots Blower scheme.

WWII Sir George Godfrey and Partners made/supplied Marshall superchargers for aviation use.

1941 The Marshall supercharger was the most widely used of the commercial Roots-type superchargers, according to Motorsport Magazine[3]

Post WWII War-surplus units were repurposed by L. M. Ballamy, Consulting and Experimental Engineers, later North Downs Engineering Co.

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Sources of Information

  1. London, Commercial Directory
  2. advert in The Sports Car
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