Grahame-White

Claude Grahame-White and family

Grahame-White was a British aircraft manufacturer and manufacturer of cycle cars .

The company was founded as Grahame-White Aviation Company in 1911 by Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959) in Hendon Middlesex and built many well-known and successful aircraft of its own design. During the First World War , Morane-Saulnier aircraft were manufactured under license for the British Air Force. In 1920 aircraft construction was completely stopped.

In the same year the company changed its name to Grahame-White Company Ltd. and manufactured cycle cars until 1924. First, a small roadster 3.3 hp with an air-cooled single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 348 cm³ was created. In the following year, the 7 hp type with a 689 cc two-cylinder engine was added to it, but disappeared again that same year. 1924 came a cycle car with a water-cooled four-cylinder in-line engine from Dorman , which had a displacement of 1,094 cm³. Grahame-White then disappeared from the market for good.

Airplane models

Car models

Grahame-White 3.3 hp (1920)

model	Construction period	cylinder	Displacement	wheelbase	Weight
3.3 hp	1920-1924	1	348 cc	1956 mm	203 kg (chassis only)
7 hp	1921	2 row	689 cc	2464 mm	254 kg (chassis only)
10 hp	1924	4 row	1094 cc	2464 mm

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Gunston, Bill: World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers , Naval Institute Press, Annapolis (1993), p. 132
Sampson / Low / Marston (editors): Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1919 , London, p. 140
Culshaw, David & Horrobin, Peter: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 , Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6 , pp. 398-399

Web links

Commons : Claude Grahame-White - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Grahame-White-Vehicles - collection of pictures, videos and audio files