Sheffield Motor Company

Sheffield Motor Company
legal form	Company
founding	1903
resolution	1906
Seat	Sheffield , UK
management	Archie Barnes
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

The Sheffield Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Harold and Ernest H. Hall and Archie Barnes founded the company in Sheffield in 1903 . Barnes was their director. In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Cavendish . Production ended in 1905. Seven vehicles from this manufacturer were registered in the greater Sheffield area. In 1906, the company sold Argyll Motors and Humber automobiles . In the same year, Nesthill Properties Ltd. the enterprise.

vehicles

The company used built-in engines from different manufacturers and in different sizes for their vehicles. One source gives 6 hp , 9 hp and 10 hp engines, with the weakest engine coming from De Dion-Bouton . Another source mentions the 9 HP models with a De Dion-Bouton engine and 8/10 HP with an Aster engine .

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 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

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.