Hurst & Lloyd

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Hurst & Lloyd
legal form
founding 1897
resolution 1900
Seat Wood Green , London
management George Hurst, Lewis A. Lloyd
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Hurst & Lloyd was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George Hurst and Lewis A. Lloyd founded the company in the London borough of Holborn in 1897 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Hurst & Lloyd . In 1898 the company moved to Wood Green . The plant offered space for ten vehicles and 30 employees. Production ended in 1900 when the partners separated. Hurst then founded G. Hurst and Lloyd together with a partner Lloyd & Plaister Limited .

vehicles

A model with a two-cylinder engine was on offer . The engine was mounted horizontally under the vehicle floor. It drove the rear axle via belts.

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 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 .
  2. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.