S. Sandford

S. Sandford
legal form
founding	1922
resolution	1939
Seat	Levallois-Perret
management	Malcolm Stuart Sandford
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Sandford tricycle

S. Sandford was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Malcolm Stuart Sandford (1889–1956) founded the company for the production of automobiles in Paris in 1922 . The brand name was Sandford . In 1925 the company moved to Levallois-Perret . Production ended in 1939.

vehicles

tricycle

Initially, three-wheelers were produced with the single wheel at the rear. These vehicles were similar to Morgan's three-wheelers . Water -cooled two- and four-cylinder engines from Ruby with displacements from 900 cm³ to 1100 cm³ provided the drive .

4-4

From 1935 the Morgan 4-4 was produced under license as a four-wheel alternative to the three-wheelers. From 1939 a Ruby engine was used.

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)

Web links

Commons : Sandford  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 30, 2013)
• 3wheelers.com (accessed March 30, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.