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Rhode Motor Co.
legal form
founding 1921
resolution 1931
Seat Birmingham , UK
management Frederick William Mead
Number of employees 300 (1926)
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Rhode was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Rhode from 1925

The company Rhode Motor Co of Birmingham was founded by Frederick William Mead and Tom Deakin. Mead worked for the Lanchester Motor Company during the first two decades of the 20th century . From about 1910 Mead and Deakin developed plans to set up their own automobile production; the outbreak of the First World War prevented its implementation. In 1921 the production of automobiles began. In 1926 the company had around 300 employees who produced around 50 vehicles per week. After a general strike in 1926, production came to a temporary standstill. The company had to reorganize before automobile production could resume in 1928. In the period from 1921 to 1928, Rhode built a total of 5,000 cars. In 1931 Rhode was bankrupt and was dissolved. Frederick William Mead Mead first went to Morris, where he worked as the head of the testing department. In 1932 he founded the coachwork company Meredith Coachcraft , which ceased operations before the outbreak of World War II . Mead's son Richard ran the coachbuilding company Richard Mead Coach Building in the early post-war period .

vehicles

All vehicles were equipped with four-cylinder engines. The first 9½ HP model was produced between 1921 and 1925. The engine developed 19 HP from a displacement of 1087 cm³ . The 10.8 HP from 1924 to 1925, the 11/30 HP from 1926 to 1929 and the Hawk from 1928 to 1929 had an engine with a displacement of 1232 cc. The last model was the Hawk 12/50 HP , which was offered between 1929 and 1931 with a displacement of 1496 cc.

A vehicle of this brand was on display at the Dingles Fairground Heritage Center in Lifton , Devon .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • GN Georgano: cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 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 : Rhode  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WB: Forgotten makes, No 87: The Rhode . Motorsport Magazine, November 1989, p. 61.
  2. ↑ Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 , Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 145.