Liquid Fuel Engineering Company

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Lifu from 1901

Liquid Fuel Engineering Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in the 19th century in Cowes on the Isle of Wight . In 1898, Henry Alonzo House, a steam wagon pioneer from the USA , was the manager. Under his leadership, the production of delivery vans and buses with steam engines and boat engines began . The brand name was Lifu . The company did not manufacture passenger cars itself, but had them manufactured by various contractually bound companies such as Thomas Noakes & Sons from London . Steam Car Company (House's System) Limited , also headed by Henry Alonzo House, from London, sold the vehicles. Lifu closed the Cowes factory in 1900, but continued to manufacture marine engines in Hamworthy until at least 1908 .

Passenger cars

Passenger cars were built between 1899 and 1902. Two-cylinder steam engines were mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle. A four-seater vehicle from 1901 still exists today.

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)

Web links

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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. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.