Brown Brothers
Brown was a British manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles .
Company history
The company Brown Brothers Limited began in 1899 in London with the production of automobiles. Their production ended in 1911. Motorcycles were made from 1902 to 1919.
vehicles
model | construction time | cylinder | Cubic capacity cm³ | Power hp |
Tricycle and Quadricycle | 1899-1901 | 1 | ||
2 ¼ HP | 1901-1901 | 1 | ||
6 HP | 1901-1904 | 1 | 813 | |
8 HP | 1902-1902 | 2 | 1399 | |
7 HP | 1904-1904 | 2 | 1272 | |
8 HP | 1904-1904 | 1 | 1140 | |
8 HP | 1904-1904 | 2 | 1305 | |
8/10 HP | 1904-1905 | 2 | 1570 | |
12/14 HP | 1904-1904 | 4th | 2852 | |
8 HP | 1905-1905 | 2 | 1559 | |
12/14 HP | around 1905 | 4th | 1810 | 14th |
16 HP | around 1905 | 4th | 2799 | |
18/20 HP | 1905-1905 | 4th | 3456 | |
10/12 HP | 1906-1910 | 2 | 2042 | |
20/22 HP | 1905-1905 | 4th | 4084 | |
20 HP | 1905-1905 | 4th | 4562 | |
20 HP | 1906-1910 | 4th | 3770 | |
24 HP | 1906-1907 | 4th | 5401 | |
35 HP | 1907-1911 | 6th | 6126 | |
40 HP | 1907-1908 | 6th | 7413 | |
25/30 HP | 1908-1910 | 4th | 4084 |
In October 1917 a contract was signed with Brown Brothers to further develop the technology of hydraulic power transmission in tanks (here: Mark VII ). In July 1918 the prototype was ready. Its propulsion system was very complex. The motor drove the pumps via a variable speed gearbox, which in turn drove two Williams-Janney hydraulic motors. Each of the hydraulic motors drove an armored chain . Because of the obvious risk of overheating , there were plenty of fans, vents, and coolers. The control was simple and only possible in stages.
Three of the 74 copies ordered had been completed by the end of the war in 1918.
A vehicle of this brand occasionally competes in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
- GN Georgano : cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
- David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English)
Web links
- GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)
- Documents and newspaper articles on the Brown Brothers in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .