Ailsa Craig archives

A history of the Ailsa Craig engineering firm, which began making bicycles in Glasgow before 1891. A move to Putney introduced the manufacture of machine tools, then in 1902, motor vehicles. From 1904 to 1972 (when the company ceased trading), the main products were petrol and diesel engines. The vast majority of the company's records along with some example engines and other artefacts are retained at the Motor Boat Museum, located in the Wat Tyler Country Park, Pitsea, near Basildon, Essex, along with most of the remaining working drawings for the petrol engines.