The History Of Briggs & Stratton

The History Of Briggs & Stratton ENGINES Briggs & Stratton is the world’s largest manufacturer of air-cooled engines building more than 9 million of them in the U S each year But few people know that the company got its start as a school project Stephen Foster Briggs built a 2-cycle engine as an engineering student in 1907 at a college in Brookings S Dak He was eager to bring the engine to market but did not have the resources So he teamed up with Harold Stratton a successful grain merchant and the two men formed a partnership Unfortunately Briggs’ original engine proved too costly to manufacture but the company found success making auto parts and even produced a small car named the Briggs & Stratton Flyer Eventually the company focused on small gas engines for outdoor power equipment and the rest is history

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