Coventry-Victor

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Coventry-Victor (1933)
Coventry-Victor (1935)

Coventry-Victor was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Coventry-Victor Motor Co Limited of Coventry made from 1920 built-in motors for other car manufacturers like Amazon Cars , Edmond , GB , Gibbons & Mear and Jeecy-Vea ago. In 1926 the production of own automobiles began. Production ended in 1938.

vehicles

Only three-wheelers were made with the single wheel in the rear. In-house production engines were used, mainly two-cylinder engines . At first there was a basic version with 688 cm³ displacement and a sport version with 749 cm³ displacement. From 1932 the basic version was called Midget and the sport version was called Luxury Sports . From 1937 there were also luxury versions with larger engines that had a displacement of 850, 950 or 1000 cm³.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Arvika Fordonsmuseum in Arvika .

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. New edition. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English).

Web links

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