Siddeley Autocar

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Siddeley Autocar Co Limited
legal form Ltd.
founding 1902
resolution 1905
Seat Coventry
management John Davenport Siddeley
Branch Automotive industry

Siddeley from 1904
Siddeley from 1904
Siddeley from 1904
Siddeley from 1904

Siddeley Autocar was a British automobile manufacturer.

Company history

The company Siddeley Autocar Co Limited of John Davenport Siddeley began in 1902 in Coventry with the production of automobiles . In 1903 there was a collaboration with Vickers, Son, and Maxim Limited and the move to Crayford in Kent .

Production ended in 1905. The Wolseley Motor Company took over the company.

vehicles

At first there was the single-cylinder model 6 HP with 1319 cm³ displacement and the four-cylinder models 18 HP with 3238 cm³ displacement and 25 HP with 5276 cm³ displacement and 32 HP output. In 1905 the revised single-cylinder model 6 HP with 1194 cm³ displacement followed, the two-cylinder model 12 HP with 2388 cm³ displacement and 13 PS as well as the four-cylinder models 15 HP with 3142 cm³ displacement and 18 HP, 18 HP with 4154 cm³ displacement and 32 HP with either 5401 cm³ or 7060 cm³ displacement.

A vehicle of this brand can be seen at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge .

See also

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia , BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • GN Georgano : cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 , Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English)

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