Scotsman Motors

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Scotsman Motors Limited was a British automobile manufacturer based in Edinburgh between 1929 and 1930 . There was no connection to the Scotsman Motor Car Company from Glasgow , which manufactured automobiles from 1922 to 1923.

vehicles

Little Scotsman (1930)

The company offered two models that can be assigned to the middle class. The Little Scotsman had an overhead steering four - cylinder in - line engine with 1.5 l displacement and was built on a chassis with a 2819 mm wheelbase and 1321 mm track width. The 16.3 hp license from SARA was equipped with a six-cylinder in-line engine with an overhead camshaft, which was air-cooled and had a displacement of 1.8 l. Its chassis had a wheelbase of 3048 mm and a track width of 1416 mm.

The 16.3 hp was only built for one year, the Little Scotsman was last available in 1930, when this company closed again.

Models

model Construction period cylinder Displacement wheelbase
Little Scotsman 1929-1930 4 row 1496 cc 2819 mm
16.3 hp 1929 6 row 1806 cc 3048 mm

literature

  • David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1999). ISBN 1-874105-93-6
  • GN Georgano: cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)