Barrington Motors

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Barrington Motors Ltd
legal form Limited
founding 1932
resolution 1936
Seat Sheffield , UK
management Barrington Budd
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Barrington Motors Ltd was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Barrington Budd tested a self-developed two-stroke engine from 1929 . In 1932 he founded the company in Sheffield to manufacture automobiles. The brand name was Barrington . Production ended in 1936. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The company manufactured small cars. A three-cylinder two-stroke engine powered the vehicles. In the first prototype the engine had a displacement of 782 cm³ , and in the following models it was about 900 cm³. Rubery Owen was involved in the production of the chassis .

A larger test car did not go into production.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • 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. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.