# Barry Engine

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The **Barry Engine** first appeared in 1904 when it was exhibited at the Stanley Exhibition in [London](/source/London)'s Burners Hall. Designed by [Charles Benjamin Redrup](/source/Charles_Benjamin_Redrup) and manufactured in partnership with Alban Williams by the Barry Motor Company, the engine was a two-cylinder supercharged [rotary engine](/source/Rotary_engine). The prototype [motorcycle](/source/Motorcycle) retained the pedals of a conventional cycle, and the engine rotated on the pedal shaft between the driver's knees. The driver was protected by a [colander](/source/Colander)-type perforated cage, which enabled cooling air to reach the cylinders.

The engine was reviewed by a number of journals at the time.[1]

Later models of the motorcycle dispensed with the pedals and the engine was lowered to improve the centre of gravity. No known models of the engine exist, but a similar [Redrup](/source/Redrup) 1912 rotary aircraft engine is in the [Manchester](/source/Manchester) Museum of Science and Industry and later [Redrup Radial](/source/Redrup_Radial) engines designed and built by [Redrup](/source/Redrup) are still in existence.[2]

## References

1. *The Motor Cycle*, November 28 1904

1. *The Classic Motorcycle*, March 1987, 'The Knife and Fork Man' ISBN 978-0-9554455-0-7, Diesel Publishing

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