Hollick & Pratt

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Hollick & Pratt
legal form Limited Company
founding 1904 or 1913
resolution 1923
Reason for dissolution takeover
Seat Coventry , UK
Branch Body shop

Hollick & Pratt was a British manufacturer of automobile bodies from Coventry , which started operations before the First World War and existed as an independent company until 1923. It had a close relationship with the Morris Motor Company , one of the UK's leading automobile manufacturers at the time.

Company history

Hollick & Pratt was founded by Henry Hollick and his son-in-law Lancelot Pratt. There are different details about the founding date. One source mentions the year 1904, another 1913. Both had already worked in the body shop before the company was founded. Hollick had presented its first vehicle body in 1888 and was considered to be "one of the pioneers in the manufacture of automobile bodies," and Pratt had also manufactured vehicle bodies in his own company.

In 1913, Pratt established a business relationship with the newly founded, Cowley- based Morris Motor Company, with whose founder William Morris he was a private friend. During the war and in the years that followed, Hollick & Pratt became Morris' preferred body supplier alongside Raworth , but also manufactured bodies for other manufacturers such as Riley and Hillman . In each case, there were no individual bodies produced on behalf of individual customers ("bespoke"), but standardized bodies that were produced in series. In the autumn of 1922, a fire completely destroyed the Hollick & Pratt factories. Morris then bought the company in January 1923, rebuilt the factory facilities in Coventry and began body production again in the summer of 1923. Hollick & Pratt then only produced standardized bodies for Morris chassis.

In 1926 the company changed its name to Morris Motors Ltd. (Bodies Branch) around. In the following years it went completely into the Morris group.

literature

Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 .

Web links

Aerial photo of the Hollick & Pratt / Morris Motor Works plant (1927) on the website www.britainfromabove.org.uk

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Damien Kimberley: Coventry's Motorcar Heritage , Coventry's Motorcar Heritage, 2012, ISBN 9780752490410 .
  2. ^ A b Nick Walker: AZ of British Coachbuilders 1919-1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 126.