Headland Patent Electric Storage Battery Company

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Headland Patent Electric Storage Battery Company Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1897
resolution 1900
Seat Leyton , London
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Headland Patent Electric Storage Battery Company Ltd. was a British manufacturer of batteries and automobiles .

Company history

The company from the London borough of Leyton manufactured batteries. Automobiles were also made between 1897 and 1900. The brand name was Headland .

vehicles

They were electric cars . There was a choice of models with rear-wheel drive and those with front-wheel drive.

The Allgemeine Motorwagen-Gesellschaft from Berlin exhibited a three-seater Brougham from Headland at the motor vehicle exhibition that took place in Düsseldorf from September 17 to 24, 1898 . The front-mounted electric motor developed 3 hp and drove the front axle. The accumulators were in the rear of the vehicle. They weighed 670 kg, the complete vehicle 1680 kg.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Headland.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (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 , chapter Headland.
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, p. 18.