It has been announced just  recently that one of the two Ruston Proctor engine works, built during World War One, is to be demolished to make. way for housing. Here is a little history of these works.

The well-known Boultham Works at Frith Road, and another at Spike Island, were constructed in early 1915 and completed in a little over six months. As we know, World War One aircraft, including bi-planes, mainly the Sopwith F1 Camel and their associated rotary engines, as well as in-line engines for other orld War One aircraft, were constructed there. 

As the War was coming to a close in late 1918, Ruston and Proctor and Co Lt