Perry Motor

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The Perry Motor Company Ltd. was a British automobile manufacturer based in Tyseley (Birmingham) . From 1913 to 1916 he produced vehicles with the name Perry .

history

The company was founded in 1824 by James and Stephen Perry under a different name and initially manufactured pens in a workshop in London . It later moved to Birmingham and started manufacturing bicycles . In the late 1890s, the company ran into financial difficulties and was bought by James William Bayliss , who was a co-owner of the Excelsior Motor Company , which also built the Bayliss-Thomas car.

Models

They manufactured their first automobile, a three-wheeled vehicle , in 1899, then a forecar (automobile with a front passenger seat) came in 1903. Cecil Bayliss , the owner's son, built a small car with an 800 cc engine in 1911, and the first was developed from it Series built automobile by Perry.

From 1913 to 1915, the 8 hp mid- range car was in the range. It was available as a touring car . The vehicles were powered by a gasoline engine with a displacement of around 900 cm³ . The wheelbase measured between 2132 mm and 2284 mm, the length 3124 mm and the width 1422 mm. The curb weight was given as 508 kg. The car's engine was a proprietary development. It was a parallel twin , a two-cylinder in - line engine in which both pistons move up and down at the same time. The rear wheels were driven via a three-speed gearbox and a worm drive. Usually the cars were built as an open two-seater, but there was also a version with an extended wheelbase and mother-in-law seat . About 800 copies were made of this.

In 1914 a large passenger car called 11.9 hp was introduced, which had a four-cylinder in-line engine with a displacement of 1795 cc. Touring car bodies with two or four seats were offered, which were mainly manufactured by Mulliners in Birmingham . The length was 4000 mm and the width 1575 mm with a wheelbase of 2591 mm. In 1914, around 300 pieces were made until the outbreak of World War I.

The successor to the model was the Bean 11.9 from Bean Cars .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Georgano, N .: Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile , HMSO, London (2000), ISBN 1-57958-293-1
  2. ^ Culshaw, David & Horrobin, Peter: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 , Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6