[2] The merged company was based in Victoria Road, Acton, London, but was in voluntary liquidation by December 1920.
[3] Arthur Lyon & Co was re-formed directly to continue the manufacture of engine-powered generators and pumps, with a particular emphasis on light weight and portability.
In 1948 the company was acquired by Newage Engineers, and in 1950 they transferred Arthur Lyon & Co generator business to Barnack Road, Stamford, Peterborough.
Products were exhibited by Arthur Lyon & Co Ltd at the Olympia exhibition devoted to flying in March 1914, as follows:[4] When the companies were merged they stated their intention to continue the production of : At the end of World War I the Ministry of Munitions sold-off some new equipment the Royal Engineers had in stock which included 6 of "4kW Petrol Electric Generating Sets, by Lyon and Winch, consisting of Two Cycle 'Coventry Simplex' engines, direct coupled to compound wound D.C.
"[5] Coventry-Simplex was the company that became Coventry Climax in 1917, and apparently during World War I they provided hundreds of engines to power searchlights.
For the civilian market, launched at the Royal Show in Cardiff in June 1919, they advertised the Lyon-Brotherhood electric lighting plant (manufactured under Lyon and Ricardo patents).
Several of these rare generators survive, and suggest that it was made for many years from 1943 with the MkIV version having a single cylinder steam engine.
They were beach defence lights of 20 to 24 inch diameter complete with a petrol engine and electric generator.