Perkins, the company namesake, was born in Peterborough, England, in 1889. Both his father and grandfather were engineers and the owners of the family firm of Barford and Perkins. Their main product, ...
Perkins Engines has been building high-speed diesel engines for more than 80 years. F. Perkins Limited’s (the firm’s original corporate name) first high-speed engine was a four-cylinder unit called ...