Roots Oil Motor and Motor Car
The Roots Oil Motor and Motor Car Co. was a British automobile manufacturer based in London . 1896–1904 three- and four-wheeled vehicles with crude oil engines were built under the name Roots & Venables .
The first three-wheeled vehicle was presented in 1896. The following year came the four-wheeled petrocar with a 5-hp single-cylinder engine (1.3 l displacement). A number of other small vehicles followed by 1904.
Models (selection)
model | Construction period | cylinder | Displacement | wheelbase |
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Petrocar 5 hp | 1897-1902 | 1 | 1296 cc |
source
David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1999). ISBN 1-874105-93-6