The company's founder and namesake, Frank Perkins, was born in Peterborough on 20 February 1889. His father and grandfather were engineers and the family firm, Barford and Perkins, manufactured agricultural machinery and road rollers.
While working at Aveling and Porter in Rochester Kent, Frank Perkins started to develop a light high-speed diesel engine with an engine designer, Charles Chapman. Before the engine was fully developed the Depression had bankrupted the company.
Rubber wheel mobile power station is mainly applicable to field construction sites without AC power supply. It can be used as the power supply for 2 sets of manual welding or 2 sets of manual semi-automatic welding, as well as mobile power generation equipment in other field engineering construction. It can be used for...