Record Engineering Co (of Manchester)
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]
1915 John Davidson and Mather and Platt patented "Improvements in and relating to the Charging of Two Cycle Gas Engines"; John Davidson then patented several aspects of internal combustion engines under his own name.
1917 Introduced a safety carriage for haulage in mines, called the "Rearer"
1918 Producing a 50-bhp two-stroke engine built on a four-cylinder Vee layout. [3]
By 1919 Davidson was living in Burton on Trent.
Engines with similar features were later produced by the Record Engineering Co of Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, featured in 'Engineering', 23rd September 1921.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1914/01/30
- ↑ The Autocar 1914/02/28
- ↑ A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1996. ISBN 1 873098 37 5