That engine is a flat-twin engine created by the Lanchester Motor Company. Although that name may not be very familiar to you, Lanchester was actually the first producer of cars in Britain.

The Flat-Twin engine is something special, and so it holds a place in history for its many uses and achievements.

Lanchester This one is easy. Based in Birmingham, England, the Lanchester Motor Company made cars from the late 19th century until 1930 when it merged with Daimler.

His Lanchester vibration dampener, a device that would be adopted by virtually all manufacturers, was patented in 1910. Apex of the company's product line was the 40-hp model introduced after the ...

q THE British motor industry has often sidelined people of genius, and Frederick Lanchester is the prime example. He was the only pioneer who studied engine, transmission, chassis and suspension ...

Because Jaguar owns Daimler and Daimler had absorbed the Lanchester Motor Company in the 1931, the museum is dedicated to these three marques. Currently, the museum has 114 cars, ...

DR. F. W. LANCHESTER died at his home in Birmingham on March 8, and the world of engineering lost a figure of the type which is perhaps only just beginning to be appreciated-a great physicist who ...

The development of this two-cylinder engine goes all the way back to 1896, three years before the Lanchester Brothers — Frederick, George, and Frank — had even formally established their Motor ...