E. Bowser

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
E. Bowser
legal form
founding 1922
resolution 1923
Seat Leeds
management Edward Bowser
Branch Automobile manufacturer

E. Bowser was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Edward Bowser founded the company in Leeds in 1922 and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was Bowser . Production ended in 1923. Edward Bowser made sidecars for another company in the 1930s .

vehicles

The only model was a small car. A two-cylinder engine from Koh-I-Noor with a capacity of 1021 cm³ and 9 hp was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The transmission had three gears. The open body offered space for two people. The original price was an expensive £ 300 at the start and £ 225 later.

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)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 . (English)

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.