Compton Sons & Terry

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Compton Sons & Terry
legal form Limited Company
founding 1929
resolution 1930
Seat London , UK
management Arthur P. Compton
Branch Body shop

Compton Sons & Terry was a short-lived British automobile body manufacturer who manufactured some sports bodies for series chassis in the interwar period. The company is considered a forerunner of Abbey Coachworks .

Company history

The company was founded by Arthur P. Compton and WH Terry. Compton had been active in various constellations in the body shop since the end of the First World War . His first company traded as Compton & Hermon from 1921 . Compton & Hermon ceased operations in the mid-1920s. Arthur Compton then moved to the Wimbledon- based company Jarvis & Sons , whose manager and chief designer he became. In 1929 he left Jarvis and together with WH Terry founded the body construction company Compton Sons & Terry, which only existed in this form for about a year. Compton left the company as early as 1930 and founded a new company with AP Compton & Co. (later: Arrow Coachworks). WH Terry, on the other hand, took over equipment and personnel from Compton Sons & Terry and built on this basis the body manufacturer Abbey Coachworks, which existed until 1937.

Products

Compton Sons & Terry was based in the London borough of Merton . The company focused on racing and sports cars with light bodies. However, in the few months of its existence it only produced individual superstructures. Bodies for Bugatti and Talbot chassis are well-known, and the series production of a coupé called Arrow based on the Austin Seven began , which AP Compton continued with his own business after separating from Terry in 1930.

literature

  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile: Coachbuilding , Routledge, 2001, ISBN 9781136600722 .
  • Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 130.
  2. ^ A b Nick Walker: AZ of British Coachbuilders 1919-1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 100.
  3. ↑ Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile: Coachbuilding , Routledge, 2001, ISBN 9781136600722 .
  4. ↑ Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 99.