Starter Motor Supply in UK Shropshire & Mid Wales

Starter motor failed ? Need to Buy Repair or Recondition a vehicle Starter Motor ?
We supply Brand New Starter Motors and Factory Service Exchange Remanufactured Starter Motors locally and by mail order for most makes and models of vehicle including
Car * Van & Light Commercial * Hgv truck & Heavy Commercial * PSV * Excavators and Construction plant * Forklift * Tractor * Industrial engines

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Direct to customer delivery by UK courier or mail order.

Local On Site* fitting service in Shrewsbury, Telford, Shropshire & Mid Wales areas (*where accessible. Subject to fee & availability ).

Starter Motor Unit Supply of Replacements for most makes and codes

History of the Starter Motor, Bendix starter drive, and Agricultural Engineering

Starter motors have been fitted to internal combustion engines (ICE) for many years. British agricultural engineering company William Arnold and Sons, East Peckham, Kent, trading as the Arnold Motor Carriage Company, is credited with fitting a first electric starter by electrical engineer H.J. Dowsing to a Benz with Arnold's engine in 1896. The Arnold Benz is also the first car to have exceeded the speed limit (source: Motoringnews.org) Records of starter motor patent attempts go back to 1899. The Bendix starter motor drive mechanism used on classic and vintage vehicles up until around the 1970's era, was invented in 1910 by Vincent Bendix. A Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco) starter motor was fitted to a General Motors (GM) Cadillac vehicle in 1912. Due to gear meshing problems liable to cause damage to starter pinion gear and flywheel teeth, bendix type starter motors for ICE's were largely superceded by pre-engaged starter motors which operate the motor pinion gear to flywheel teeth by a lever moved by the electromagnetic action of a solenoid, which again is a development of the agricultural tractor starter motors of the 1940's 1950's and 1960's where the starter gear was engaged with the flywheel teeth by pushing down on a lever which also pushed on a contact switch wired back to the coil circuit of a seperate electromagnetic solenoid causing the solenoid plunger to move a set of contacts. The remote solenoid contacts closing causes a relay effect supplying heavy current power feed to the starter motor B+ terminal. The Starter motor B+ terminal is connected internally to the starter motor brushes, or brushes and field coils depending on starter motor design. Brushes contact the copper bars of the commutator which is shaft mounted adjacent and connected to armature windings. Electrical current returns via the earth brush and wiring to the vehicle battery. Earth return circuit may be via chassis rails or insulated return depending on application and design.

Reference sources and learning resources:

Laukkonen,J (2013) 'History of the starter motor' www.crankshift.com
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Hugo_Bendix
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix_drive
GM, Wired).
Youtube video (no affiliation) Starter Motor Explained - How a car's electric starter motor works

Motor Engineer Henry Ford also originated from an agricultural background. Unfortunately, our parts stock does not go back quite this far although we are able to source starter motors for modern vehicles.