Green's Motor Patents Syndicate
of 55 Berners Street, London
The company was founded by Gustavus Green in London to produce water-cooled engines of his design during the first decade of the 20th century. Actual manufacturing was carried out at the Aster Engineering Co. The firm produced a range of water-cooled, in-line engines up to about 1915. Green engines powered many pioneering British aircraft, including those by Alliott Verdon-Roe of Avro, and the Short Brothers
1909 Produced a 35 hp motor-boat engine
Made smaller engines for motorcycles in the 1910s
1910 Adapted and fitted an engine to an Avro aircraft
1910 Submitted an engine for the Alexander Award, sponsored by Patrick Young Alexander, for the development of a lightweight engine suitable for aviation[1][2].
1911 The company had become Green Engine Co