Springfield Cycle Company

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Springfield Cycle Company Ltd. was a British manufacturer of bicycles and automobiles .

Company history

The company from Sandiacre near Nottingham made bicycles. An advertisement from January 1, 1898 has survived. In 1900 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Valkyrie . Automobile production ended in the same year.

Automobiles

The only model was a small car that resembled French voiturettes . A built-in engine from De Dion-Bouton with 3.5 HP power was mounted at the front under a bonnet and drove the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The transmission had three gears.

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)

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.
  3. ↑ Newspaper advertisement from January 1, 1898 (English, accessed March 9, 2014)