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 conversion to automatic operation of all the lighthouses and light vessels. The last one to be done (perfectly timed to occur on Trafalgar Day) was North Foreland Light in Kent. For the 400 yea...
Civil Engineer. Born Norfolk. President of The Institute of Civil Engineers. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851, and Chairman of its Building committee. Also designed a louvred...
Civil engineer. Born at 50 Ferdinand Strasse, Hamburg. Worked with his father William Lindley on a number of engineering projects, including the Warsaw waterworks and the sewerage system in Prague,...
Civil engineer. Â Born Devon. Â Worked for Smeaton, first as an apprentice and then as assistant until 1772. Â Promoted cast iron as a constructional material. Â Built the Grand Canal in Ireland. Â Buil...
From Dartford Archive:Â "In the early days the company specialised in heavy foundry-based engineering. Later on, the company developed a specialisation in refrigeration engineering." We wondered wh...
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