National Gas Engine.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 March 1906, Page 112

National Gas Engine.

world. The addition of other improvements to the Otto cycle has given such satisfaction to purchasers that the demand is even now constantly m advance of the supply, notwithstanding the continued extensions being made at the works m Ashton-under-Lyne, England. In order to meet this growing demand, and to ensure the making oi gas engines m an economic and highly efficient manner, the National Gas Engine Company was in the year 1897 formed into a limited Company. Two gentlemen of long experience in connection with the trade then joined the Board — viz., Mr. Henry Prescott and Mr. H. W Bradley. Again in the year 1900, owing to the continued increase in the demand for National engines, a further re-construction was made, increasing the capital considerably, and immediately

The National Gas Engine Company was organised in 1889 for the purpose of making gas engines on the Otto cycle, with several improvements patented by Mr. Henry N. Bickerton, who had previously been connected with the manufacture of gas engines for a number of years. The engine then produced by the Company very soon became widely known as the " National Improved Otto," and almost immediately occupied a front rank in the gas-engine

afterwards a gentleman of world-wide reputation in connection with gas engines was added to the directorate — viz , Mr. Dugal Clerk. The National gas engines are designed from one standard type, which must prove that every detail has been ai rived at after great consideration Tl c small engines have identically the same features throughout as the larger engines. The following are a few of the important features embodied in the National gas engine — perfect regulation of speed at different powers, easy and sale starting by inexperienced hands, durable ignition tubes, gas consumption strictly in accordance with the power used, every convenience for cleaning necessary parts, perfect self-lubncation without waste, highest-class workmanship with simplicity of construction, magneto-electric ignition fitted to all the larger size engines. In designing these engines the paramount necessity of ensuring permanent successful working has been carefully observed.