Payne & Bates

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Payne & Bates
legal form
founding 1897
resolution 1902
Seat Coventry
management Samuel Walter Payne, George Bates
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Godiva from 1901

Payne & Bates was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Samuel Walter Payne and George Bates founded the company in Coventry in 1897 and began producing automobiles in 1898. The brand name was Godiva . In addition, between 1901 and 1902 vehicles were delivered to RM Wright in Lincoln , who marketed them as Stonebow . Production ended in 1902.

vehicles

Brand name Godiva

The first model was the 9 HP , which was available until 1901. It was equipped with a two-cylinder engine. The Dos-à-dos body shape offered space for four people who sat back to back. In 1901 the new models 7 HP , 9 HP , 14 HP and 25 HP with two-cylinder and four-cylinder engines came onto the market.

A vehicle of this make can be viewed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry.

Brand name Stonebow

The models 5 HP with a single cylinder engine from Aster and 7 HP were on offer .

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)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Payne & Bates  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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.