George Herbert Skinner

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George Herbert Skinner (born April 1872 in Municipal Borough of Ealing near London , † 1931 ) was a British shoe and carburetor manufacturer .

A pair of SU carburettors from an MG MGB

George Herbert Skinner was the son of the shoe manufacturer William Banks Skinner from Lilley & Skinner , where Herbert was also on the management board. In 1903 he bought an automobile from Léon Bollée from 1896 in France , making him one of the first automobile owners in the United Kingdom . In 1905 he registered a patent for a carburetor he had developed in Great Britain . He later worked with his younger brother Thomas Carlisle Skinner to develop a more efficient carburetor. Skinner did not believe in early school enrollment, so he didn't enroll his son Herbert Skinner at Durston House School until 1909, when he was nine . Herbert and Carlisle Skinner founded the Skinners Union Company Limited, SU for short, in August 1910 , which manufactured constant pressure carburetors , some of the development details of which are still included in today's carburetors. The original carburetors were fitted with goat leather bellows made by Herbert's wife, Mabel Elizabeth. Spare parts for it were available from Skinner until 1928.

In 1926 the Morris Motor Company took over SU and in 1936 SU became part of Morris for good. Therefore, no SU carburettors were installed in early Austins, as the then independent Austin Motor Company was a competitor of Morris. In 1952, SU became part of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and in 1968 it became part of British Leyland . In 1988 SU was sold to the Holborn Group.

Web links

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  1. ^ SU Carburetters
  2. ↑ FUEL SYSTEMS - The History of SU Carbs , on minimania.com, accessed June 19, 2020
  3. ↑ The SU Carburettor , on roversd1.nl
personal data
SURNAME Skinner, George Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British shoe and carburetor manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Municipal Borough of Ealing , UK
DATE OF DEATH 1931