Parker Motor Company

Parker Motor Company
legal form	Company
founding	1901
resolution	1902
Seat	Wolverhampton , UK
management	Thomas H. Parker
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Parker Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Thomas H. Parker had made an electric car called the Bushbury Electric Cart back in 1897 . Although he was employed by the Wearwell Motor Carriage Company , he founded his own company in Wolverhampton in 1901 to manufacture automobiles. The brand name was Parker . Production ended in 1902.

vehicles

The Bushbury Electric Cart was a tricycle. Parker used used parts from the Star Cycle Company .

Steam cars were built from 1901 . They had a two-cylinder - steam engine with 10 hp power. The engine was mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle via a cardan shaft . Outwardly, the vehicles were similar to the models from the Daimler Motor Company .

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 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

• Bushbury (accessed March 16, 2014)

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.