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Birmingham Motor Manufacturing and Supply Co Limited (1901–1902) Rex Motor Manufacturing Co Limited (1902–1922)
legal form	Limited
founding	1901
resolution	1922
Reason for dissolution	fusion
Seat	Coventry
Branch	Automobile manufacturer , motorcycle manufacturer

Rex Rexette from 1904

Rex Rexette from 1905

Rex Motor Manufacturing Co Limited was a British manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

The company Birmingham Motor Manufacturing and Supply Co Limited began in 1901 in Birmingham with the production of automobiles and motorcycles . The brand name was Rex . In 1902 there was a merger with Allard & Co Limited from Coventry . The new company was called Rex Motor Manufacturing Co Limited and was based in Coventry. Automobile production ended in 1914. In 1922 there was a merger with the motorcycle manufacturer Acme . The new company was called Rex-Acme .

Automobiles

The first model 6½ HP from 1901 was equipped with a single cylinder engine with 874 cm³ displacement . In 1902 there was the two-cylinder model 14 HP with 2390 cm³ displacement and in 1903 the single-cylinder model 10 HP with 1195 cm³ displacement. The Rexette model from 1904 to 1906 was a tricycle . Between 1904 and 1905 the Simplex 12 model was offered with a two-cylinder engine and 1862 cm³ displacement. In 1906 there was the Ast-Rex 24 with a four-cylinder engine and 3724 cm³ displacement. Between 1906 and 1907 the Airex 9/11 HP model with a two-cylinder engine with a capacity of 1300 cm³ was offered. From 1908 there was the Remo model series with four-cylinder engines. The Remo 13/16 HP had either 2300 or 2556 cm³ displacement and the Remo 20 HP had either 2799 or 2925 cm³ displacement. Production of the Remo model series ended in 1911 . In 1913 there was another cycle car with a water-cooled V2 engine . The last model from 1914 was a small car with a four-cylinder engine from Dorman with a displacement of 1100 cc.

Two vehicles of this brand occasionally take part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

motorcycles

Around 1903 Rex built motorcycles with motors above the front wheel, which also drove it. Rex built the engines himself; they were single-cylinder and V2 engines. In 1904 there was a 372 cm³ model in which the silencer was cast in one piece with the cylinder. In 1905 the side-controlled Rex model developed 3.25 bhp (2.39 kW). When this model was discontinued, Rex built in Blackburne engines with 532 and 896 cc. When the company's founders left in 1911, George Hemingway again manufactured their own engines, but there were still models with supplied engines. Rex first installed telescopic forks and rotary valve motors in 1906 , and in 1908 they were the first manufacturer to insert a kinked top tube into the frame for a lower seating position for the rider. In 1914, a 349 cc two-stroke model and a 940 cc V2 model were offered.

After the First World War , the construction of the first model with side-controlled 550 cc single-cylinder was soon stopped in favor of new machines with Blackburne engines. There were also versions with a longer wheelbase that were suitable for sidecars. The single cylinder engines now had a displacement of 499 cm³, the V2 engines 998 cm³.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter Rex (I).
• 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 , p. 1327. (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, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Rex Motor Manufacturing Co  - 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 , Chapter Rex (I).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Erwin Tragatsch (editor): The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles . New Burlington Books, Quarto Publishing 1988. Revised edition. ISBN 0-906286-07-7 . P. 260.
3. ↑ Rex . IanChadwick.com. Retrieved December 10, 2006.