Pashley Cycles

Pashley Cycles
legal form
founding	1926
Seat	Stratford upon Avon
Branch	vehicles
Website	www.pashley.co.uk

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Pashley Cycles is a British manufacturer of bicycles and a former automobile manufacturer.

Company history

William Rathbone Pashley founded the company in Birmingham in 1926 and began manufacturing bicycles. In 1950 three-wheeled delivery vans added to the range. Automobiles were made between 1953 and 1957 . The brand name was Pashley . In the 1960s, under the direction of Dick Pashley, the move to Stratford-upon-Avon took place . The company still exists today.

Automobiles

The Pelican appeared in 1953 . It was a tricycle with a single front wheel. Behind the driver were two rows of seats for the passengers. The vehicle resembled a rickshaw . The body was made of fiberglass . A four-stroke engine from JAP with a displacement of 600 cm³ propelled the vehicle.

In the same year, a conventional microcar , also three-wheeled, similar to the Bond Minicar appeared . A doorless, open body made of light metal was mounted on a steel chassis . A two-stroke engine from Villiers Ltd with 197 cm³ displacement provided the drive.

literature

• 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

Commons : Pashley Cycles  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Company website (accessed February 3, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.