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.

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Record Engineering Co (of Burton-on-Trent)

From Graces Guide
Record Engineering Co 2-stroke petrol/paraffin engine at a vintage display in Somerset, 2010

of Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent

1921 Makers of two-stroke vertical internal combustion engines for stationary and marine applications, featuring stepped pistons (the larger diameter piston being used for scavenging) [1]

At an earlier date, engines with similar features were produced by Record Engineering Co of Eccles, Manchester, patented by John Davidson. Featured in 'The Engineer' 30th January 1914. It has not yet been established whether these companies were one and the same.

1922 Built a prototype car [2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 'Engineering' 23 September 1921
  2. * A-Z of Cars of the 1920s by Nick Baldwin. 1994. ISBN 1 870979 53 2