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