All-British Car Company

All-British Car Company
legal form	Company
founding	1906
resolution	1908
Seat	Glasgow , Scotland United Kingdom
management	George Johnston
Branch	Automobiles

All-British Car Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George Johnston, who previously worked for Arrol-Johnston , founded the company in the Bridgeton district of Glasgow in 1906 and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was All British . Production ended in 1908.

vehicles

Johnston designed a car model with an unusual eight-cylinder engine that developed 54 hp . In 1907 he presented it at an exhibition. The plan was to produce 75 vehicles a year. But the vehicle remained a one-off.

In addition, trucks and buses with four- and eight-cylinder engines were built. The trucks had chain drives. A bus was used in London .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter All-British.
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter All-British.
2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)