Stanley Engineering Company

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Argson Engineering Company Ltd. (1919–1926)
Stanley Engineering Company Ltd. (1926 – around 1952)
legal form Limited
founding 1919
resolution around 1952
Seat Egham
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Argson
Argson

Stanley Engineering Company Limited , previously Argson Engineering Company Limited , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

AR Garnett and SO Needham founded in 1919 in London , the company Argson Engineering Company Limited and started the production of hand-powered vehicles for invalids. Motorized vehicles were added in 1922. The brand name was Argson . In 1926, Stanley Engineering Company Limited from Egham took over production. Production ended around 1952. Harper Engineering took over the company and continued production at a new location at Exeter Airport with a new model and its own brand name.

vehicles

Tricycles with a single front wheel were on offer. The first Beaufort motor vehicle from 1922 had a self-developed engine with a displacement of 172 cc . A version with an electric motor followed in 1923 . In the 1930s, a two-stroke engine from Villiers Ltd with a displacement of 147 cc often drove the vehicles. At the time there were the Standard , De Luxe and Runnymede models .

Vehicles of this make are on display at the Myreton Motor Museum in Longniddry near Aberlady , East Lothian and the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester in Manchester .

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)

Web links

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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.