Ruston & Hornsby

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Ruston & Hornsby Ltd.

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legal form Limited Company
founding 1918
Seat Boultham , Lincolnshire , United Kingdom

The Ruston & Hornsby Ltd. was a British industrial group.

The company was formed in 1918 through the merger of Richard Hornsby & Sons and Ruston, Proctor and Company, founded in 1840 as Proctor & Burton .

The company was located in Boultham (Lincolnshire) from 1919 to 1924 . 1930 founded R & H with Bucyrus-Erie , the joint venture Ruston-Bucyrus and brought his excavator division in it. In 1966, Ruston & Hornsby was taken over by English Electric , which in turn was taken over in 1968 by General Electric Company (GEC). Diesel engine production was shifted to other subsidiaries within the English Electric group; only the turbine activities remained with R&H, which is why the company was renamed Ruston Gas Turbines. In 1985 GEC sold its shares in Ruston-Bucyrus. GEC merged its heavy machinery activities with Alsthom in 1989 to form GEC-Alsthom, which later became Alstom. Alstom sold Ruston to Siemens in 2003.

Car production

Ruston-Hornsby A3 20/25 hp (1923)

Two basic models of the Ruston-Hornsby were built with side-controlled four-cylinder in-line engines with a displacement of 2.6 l and 3.3 l respectively. The mid-range cars had a very good reputation and were ultimately unable to survive on the market during the global economic crisis .

Models

model Construction period cylinder Displacement power at speed wheelbase
A1 (16/20 hp) 1919-1924 4 row 2613 cc 35 bhp (26 kW) 2000 min -1 2972 mm
A2 (20 hp) 1920 4 row 3308 cc 45 bhp (33 kW) 2000 min -1 2972 mm
A3 (20/25 hp) 1921-1924 4 row 3308 cc 45 bhp (33 kW) 2000 min -1 3200 mm
B1 (16/20 hp) 1923-1924 4 row 2613 cc 35 bhp (26 kW) 2000 min -1 2972 mm
B2 (20 hp) 1923-1924 4 row 3308 cc 45 bhp (33 kW) 2000 min -1 3200 mm

literature

  • David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1999). ISBN 1-874105-93-6

Web links

Commons : Ruston & Hornsby  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Müller: Rebirth of an Imp.Siemens , December 12, 2018, accessed on March 23, 2020 (English).