English Mechanic

English Mechanic from 1904

English Mechanic was a British car brand.

Company history

The magazine The English Mechanic and World of Science and Art spread from 1900 to 1905 a number of articles of the engineer Hyler White, with the help of technically skilled people using on the market parts could assemble their own cars, so to speak, the first kit cars of Automobile history. The short form of the magazine, English Mechanic , was used as the brand name .

vehicles

• 3 HP, single cylinder engine , is similar to the rear-engined Benz vehicles
• Steam car, steam engine with two cylinders
• Steam tricycle, three-wheeler , steam engine with two cylinders
• 8 HP, two-cylinder engine , is similar to Léon Bollée's vehicles
• 5 HP, similar to American models, with a single cylinder engine under the seats

Two vehicles of this brand, a 3 HP two-seater from 1900 and an 8 HP tonneau from 1904, have been preserved and occasionally take part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

The Bonhams auction house offered a vehicle from 1900 on November 2, 2018, expected a price of £ 65,000 to £ 85,000 , achieved a maximum bid of £ 58,000 and did not sell the vehicle.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia , BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
• George Nicholas 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, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English).

Web links

Commons : English Mechanic  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Punctuation. In: Oldtimer Markt , issue 1/2019, p. 208.