Created Date:
19 April 2018
Last Modified:
15 December 2023
Grantham
Grantham
A market town in south Lincolnshire, probably best known today as the birthplace of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. It was in Grantham that world’s first compression ignition engine was produced; manufactured by Richard Hornsby and Sons, to a design developed by Herbert Ackroyd-Stuart.
A market town in south Lincolnshire, probably best known today as the birthplace of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. It was in Grantham that world’s first compression ignition engine was produced; manufactured by Richard Hornsby and Sons, to a design developed by Herbert Ackroyd-Stuart.