Century engineering

Century Engineering & Motor Co Limited Century Engineering Co Limited
legal form	Limited
founding	1885
resolution	1907
Seat	Willesden , London
management	Sydney Begbie
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Century tricycle from 1899

Century Engineering was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ralph Jackson began 1885 in Altrincham in Cheshire with the production of bicycles . In 1899 he founded Century Engineering & Motor Co Limited to manufacture automobiles. In 1901 Jackson left the company and founded Eagle Engineering . Under the direction of Sydney Begbie, the company moved to Willesden near London, and in 1904 it was renamed Century Engineering Co Limited . From 1905 the brand name was New Century . Production ended in 1907.

vehicles

The first model was the Century Tandem , a three-wheeler with the single wheel at the rear. It was initially equipped with a single-cylinder engine with 2.25 hp . In 1901 there were three different single-cylinder built-in engines to choose from: De Dion-Bouton with 3.5 HP, Aster and MMC with 5 HP each. From 1905 a two-cylinder engine was installed. In 1903, conventional four-wheeled cars appeared. The models 8 HP and 10 HP were equipped with two-cylinder engines of Aster, and the model 22 HP with a four-cylinder engine of Mutel . In 1906 the four-cylinder Princess model with 16 hp was added.

Three vehicles of this brand occasionally take part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

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)
• George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
• David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Century Engineering  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed April 1, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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.