What company as a pioneer in the manufacture of the oil engine and had a Gothic Revival mansion built for its founder?
St Vincents Hall St Vincents Hall, Grantham, is a Gothic Revival mansion built in 1868 for the industrialist Richard Hornsby who founded Richard Hornsby & Sons, engine and machinery manufacturer.
Charles Walter Hart Charles Walter Hart (July 6,1872–March 14,1937) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and businessman. Together with Charles Henry Parr, he founded a company that produced a commercially successful line of gasoline-powered tractors. After being forced out of his company in 1917, he went on to work on further development of the tractor and later, started an oil refinery.