This is a gallery of two halves. All engines captioned "J. Oliver" are current production, using the original tooling, dies and machinery, of John Oliver's famous engines and these are made by Tom Ridley at his Hinkley factory. All other engines are earlier models from the 1960's and 70's.

The J. Oliver Engines production is just a continuation of the original Oliver Tiger manufacturing and the serial numbers for Tom's engines just follow on from the original series. Anybody who knows Tom will understand why I have no hesitation in commending J. Oliver engines to you as they really are manufactured with care and precision and how else are most of us going to lay our hands on a MK V Tiger?

The JO19 engine was the first new engine designed and built by John Oliver and Tom Ridley jointly and as you can see it is a very handsome beast.

Tom Ridley and John Oliver continued to work together to develop the Tiger range up until Tom Ridley passed away in October 2016. Tom was a Freeman of the City of Coventry, former Coventry Bees speedway rider, Hinckley business entrepreneur and proprietor of J Oliver Engines.