British Polar Engines is a manufacturer of diesel engines based in Glasgow, Scotland. The company has over seventy years' experience in the manufacture and supply of spare parts for diesel engines. The engine and company take their name from the engine supplied to Amundsen's Fram, from which he conquered the South Pole.
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BritishPolarEngines is a manufacturer of diesel engines based in Glasgow, Scotland. The company has over seventy years' experience in the manufacture...
Engineering Co Ltd. Associated British Engineering also acquired BritishPolarEngines, and in 1964 they acquired Mathway Marine. In the 1980s Mathway...
by the Royal New Zealand Navy to take part in the search for Berserk, a polar exploration vessel owned by renowned explorer Jarle Andhøy, which had activated...
Kelvin Diesels is a manufacturer of marine diesel engines based in Glasgow, Scotland. The company's engines are used in a variety of vessels such as fishing...
A polar route is an aircraft route across the uninhabited polar ice cap regions. The term "polar route" was originally applied to great circle navigation...
Games, William Grant & Sons, Whyte and Mackay, The Edrington Group, BritishPolarEngines and Albion Motors. Glasgow was once one of the most significant...
icebreaker and buoy tender that was later sold to a private owner and renamed Polar Prince. The ship entered service with the Department of Transport Marine...
reduced on the left engine to a similar level. The engines did not shut down and both engines continued to produce thrust at an engine speed above flight...
deckhouses were added, providing additional shelter. Her four BritishPolar diesel engines powered the vessel's electricity generators that provided the...
very low tides. She had two masts and a single funnel, above the central engines, with the galley aft. Maid of Argyll was initially based at Craigendoran...
very low tides. She had two masts and a single funnel, above the central engines, with the galley aft. Between 1973 and 1976, she was converted to a stern-loading...
very low tides. She had two masts and a single funnel, above the central engines, with the galley aft. To operate as a car ferry, the superstructure aft...
– 1981: Clyde service Builder William Denny, Dumbarton Engine Builders: BritishPolarEngines Cost £257,960 Yard number 1470 Launched 22 September 1953...
for use at very low tides. She had a single funnel, over the central engines, with the galley aft. A main mast was added after launch, to comply with...
British English) because of their use in preparing ski trails ("pistes") or snowmobile trails. In addition to grooming snow they are used for polar expeditions...
the first polar icebreaker, which was able to run over and crush pack ice. The ship displaced 5,000 tons, and her steam-reciprocating engines delivered...
heat engine, is estimated at 200 terawatts. Part of the air rising at 60° latitude diverges at high altitude toward the poles and creates the polar cell...
predecessor. The engines options were carried over from the 740, with 8-valve 2-litre (B200) and 2.3-litre (B230) four cylinder gasoline engines, either naturally...
engine which had four cylinders of 13+3⁄8 inches (34 cm) diameter by 27+7⁄16 inches (69.7 cm) stroke. The engine was built by BritishPolarEngines Ltd...
the failure of all four engines. The crew managed to glide the plane out of the dust cloud and restart all four of its engines, although one later had...
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