Company founded by John Alfred Prestwich. Its engines were used in many famous motorcycle marques and speedway bikes, early aeroplanes, chainsaws, cultivators and light rail maintenance trucks.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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J.A.P. Engineering
John Alfred Prestwich, 1874 - 1952, inventor and designer of engines, founded...
The Wikipedia page for this organisation looks like a dumping ground for all the unwanted Is and Es from a Scrabble board. Began in 1884 as the Vulcanic* Society, formed by a group of apprentices ...
Gun-founder. Son of Jan Verbruggen. The picture shows the second machine built by the Verbruggens.
Inventor and designer of engines. Born Kensington.  He worked with Sebastian de Ferranti and the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene to produce cameras, mutoscopes, cutting and perforation machine...
Reconstructed & widened in 1969 replacing a 28 ft. wide cast iron bridge built in 1864.
Army officer and engineer. Born Woolwich, the son of a professor at the Royal Military Academy. He studied at the Academy, joined the Royal Engineers and served abroad constructing fortifications, ...
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