Saunders Motors

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Saunders Motors Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1922
resolution 1925
Seat Golders Green , London
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Saunders Motors was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

In 1919 Frank E. Morriss imported around 100 chassis from Crow-Elkhart , some of which were completed into complete automobiles and sold under the brand name Morriss-London until bankruptcy in 1920 . Saunders Motors from the London borough of Golders Green took over the remaining 69 chassis for 75 pounds each in 1922 , made complete vehicles from them and offered them under the Saunders brand . Production ended in 1925.

vehicles

The only model was the 17.9 HP . Saunders manufactured some of the bodies itself. Others were created by Morgan & Company . The price of the touring car was £ 285. The landaulet cost £ 375.

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 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.