By Precision Into Power: A Bicentennial History of D. Napier

by Alan Vessey

Overview

Napier-powered! A whole succession of factories, steam ships, motorboats, aircraft, railway engines, trucks, and automobiles have been powered by an engine from the factories of D. Napier and son. From racing cars to counting machines for the Bank of England, from world-class Deltic locomotives to the Napier Lion racing aircraft engine, the most powerful of the world's machines have been Napier powered. This volume tells the history of D. Napier and Son from the company's beginnings in Lambeth to the works in Acton, NW London. Other works were located in Luton and Liverpool too. At its peak 20,000 worked for the company, which is now owned by Siemens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780752438887
Publisher:	Tempus Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	10/01/2006
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Alan Vessey started his working life as an apprentice for Napier, a company he remained working for all his life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     7
Foreword     11
Introduction     13
Forth to the Thames: In Search of Precision 1808-1835     15
D. Napier & Son Down Lambeth Way 1836-1895     27
'The Proved Best' on Road and Water 1896-1913     45
Acton Air Power - A Great War Need 1914-1924     71
A Lion's Share of World Records: 1925-1932     91
Heralding the High-Revving Revolution 1933-1945     111
Octane Exits as Oil Engines Excel 1946-1956     139
Gas Turbine and Rocket Engine Galaxy 1957-1967     167
Moving Forward Under New Names 1968-1992     195
Saving Napier's Heritage Just in Time 1993-2008     205
A Napier Epilogue     219
Appendices     221
Index     254