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The Swift cycle car at the 1912 Olympia Motor Cycle and Cycle Car Show was described [5] as a true motor car on a small scale (but for the fact it was constructed of weldless steel tubing). The twin cylinder vertical water-cooled engine was said to resemble just two cylinders of the 13.9 hp Swift standard model, and with a bore of 75 mm and ...
On 12 March 1908 the new works was officially opened at Stoke, then just outside the city of Coventry. New buildings covered 13.5 acres and allowed for the employment of 5,000 hands. The new works was designed to be capable of producing 150 cars and 1,500 cycles per week. [13] Another financial reconstruction was made in 1909. [14]
A one-model policy for the Standard marque (alongside a range of new Triumphs) was adopted in 1948 with the introduction of the 2-litre Standard Vanguard, which was styled on American lines by Walter Belgrove, and replaced all the carry-over pre-war models. This aptly named model was the first true post-war design from any major British ...
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Founder William Rootes. Rootes was founded in Hawkhurst, Kent, in 1913 by William Rootes as a car sales agency independent from his father's Hawkhurst motor business. Rootes had moved his operations to Maidstone by 1914 and there he contracted to repair aero engines.
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The group had approximately 350-400 members and 80 antique race cars as of 2007. [1] The group has been inducting area racers in its hall of fame since 1998. [1] By design, the Hall has no permanent home. Instead, a mobile caravan of induction plaques, antique race cars and memorabilia is displayed at major auto racing shows and events in the ...
Fourteen 1929, 2-litre 4-cylinder Wizard 1932, 3-litre 6-cylinder Hawk 1936, 3-litre 6-cylinder Minx 1937, 1185 cc 4-cylinder. In 1857 Josiah Turner and James Starley formed the Coventry Sewing Machine Company, [1] and recruited skilled engineers from the London area to join them, one of whom was William Hillman.