Coventry Premier

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Coventry Premier of 1920

Coventry-Premier was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Coventry Premier Limited of Coventry began in 1919 with the production of automobiles. In 1920 Singer took over the company. Production was stopped in 1923.

vehicles

The first model 8 HP was a tricycle - Cyclecar , in which the individual wheel was back. It was equipped with a V2 engine with 1056 cm³ displacement . This model was later also available with four wheels. From 1922 the 10 HP model followed with a four-cylinder Singer engine with a displacement of 1097 cm³.

A vehicle of this make can be viewed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry.

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: 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 : Coventry-Premier  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .