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...
Printer and engineer. Born in Bermondsey, where in 1801 he set up the Bluecoat Boy Printing Office, producing books and commercial stationery. He is noted for introducing 'composition rollers' whic...
Assistant to Frederick Bremer. He helped build the first British motor car with an internal combustion engine.
Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).
Chairman of the Westminster Joint Works and Sanitary Committee in 1893. He is referenced in Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John...
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