DELIVERING CAREFULLY
ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS
Rare Engineering Skills
We undertake rare precision engineering tasks across every aspect of component part production, engine reconditioning, restoration, reclamation and repair. For decades we’ve breathed new life into engines across the commercial vehicle and the classic car restoration sectors. From white metalling and boring, to making parts or reverse engineering them - we have the expertise you need, when you need it.
RARE AND PRECISION ENGINEERING SKILLS AT YOUR SERVICE
Every part of every job is undertaken with a keen eye for detail. Great care is taken to ensure that our customers’ requirements are met on every occasion, whether it’s reconditioning a valve guide replacement or reclaiming crankshafts.
A DIVERSE RANGE OF ENGINEERING SKILLS
From manufacturing new parts, reclaiming or reverse engineering worn parts to external surface grinding and CNC machining, we’re here to keep your vehicle moving regardless of the make or model.
SPECIALIST EXPERTISE ACROSS ALL ENGINE TYPES
From an 8.7 litre 1908 Napier race car to a David Brown tractor or a Leyland Bus, we’ve spent decades machining, reconditioning and repairing engines to bring them back to life.
Latest News
began making parts
The story begins with one man and his passion for classic cars starting with a 1936 Riley Merlin. Will Fiennes purchased the car whilst still a student at Oxford in the mid-sixties and maintained it himself. This led him to join the Riley Register and, with his engineering aptitude, he soon became their “spares man” and was making a small income to supplement his academic life.
I am now approaching my 50th year with the business having joined the then parent company back in 1971 as an apprentice in Mechanical and General Engineering. Now, in 2020, with a highly skilled team, we provide our customers with full engine reconditioning services with experience ranging from automobiles to aviation and industrial engines.
One project we were recently entrusted to handle was that of an incredibly rare 1908 Type 23 Napier Limousine. D Napier & Son was a British engineering company best known for luxury motor cars in the Edwardian period and who also made aircraft engines.