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 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 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.

Wichmann

From Graces Guide
1942 2 HP single cylinder marine diesel engine on display in the Polar Museum in Tromsø.

of Rubbestadneset, Norway

Wichmann diesel engines were made by M. Haldorsen & Sønner Motorfrabrikk. The company was started by Martines Haldorsen in Rubbestadneset. His son, Haldor Andreas Haldorsen constructed the first engine, a single-cylinder 2 hp two-stroke engine in 1903.

The factory was sold to the Finnish group Wärtsilä in 1986.

For more information, see Wikipedia entry.


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