Coventry Motor Company

Coventry Motor Company Limited
legal form	Limited
founding	1896
resolution	1903
Seat	Coventry
management	Charles McRobie Turrell
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Coventry Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles McRobie Turrell founded the company in Coventry in 1896 . It belonged to Lawson's British Motor Syndicate. In 1897 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Coventry Motette , and occasionally Coventry-Bollée . Production ended in 1897. In 1903 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. This was a replica of Automobiles Léon Bollée's voiturette . It was a tricycle with a single rear wheel, more precisely a tricar . The driver sat in the back. There was space for the passenger between the front wheels.

Two vehicles have been preserved.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Coventry Motor Company  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Allcarindex (accessed February 2, 2014)

Individual evidence

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