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Antique Engine Database
Briggs & Stratton Company
After World War II, production of Briggs 7 Stratton engines came to over a half million units per year. An aluminum alloy engine was introduced in 1953, followed by many other innovations in recent years. At the present time it has a worldwide network comprising some 25,000 Authorized Service Centers. The Briggs & Stratton engine shown here typifies the line as built during the 1940s and into the 1950s. Briggs & Stratton produced their 100 millionth engine during 1976.
history
Stephen R. Briggs and Harry Stratton formed the company bearing their names in 1908. The partners first conceived the idea of a six-cylinder, two-cycle automobile engine, but this development never left the shop. The company concentrated on various auto mobile components and other products until 191 when production began on the famous Motor Wheel shown here. It was to be attached to the rear of light buckboard-type vehicles. This invention originated in England, with A.O. Smith Company of Milwaukee acquiring a short-lived venture – it sold for $225 at a time when a new Model T roadster could be purchased for an additional $100. A stationary version of the Motor Wheel appeared in 1923 – it was an air-cooled engine using a belt-driven fan.
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