Swallow Coachbuilding Co.

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The Swallow Coachbuilding Co. (1935) Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles and sidecars .

Company history

William Lyons founded the Swallow Sidecar Company in Blackpool in 1922 for the production of sidecars, which then also manufactured automobiles and marketed them as SS . From 1927 the company was called Swallow Coachbuilding Company . In 1935 he founded SS Cars Limited for automobile production, which later became Jaguar Cars , while the original company was known as Swallow Coachbuilding Co. (1935) Limited . 1945 took over Helliwells Ltd. the naming rights to the Swallow brand . Helliwells existed since 1899 and manufactured engine parts. Between 1946 and 1951, a branch in Treforest , Wales, produced motor scooters , including those with sidecars. Tube Investments Ltd. from Walsall took over the company, manufactured automobiles between 1954 and 1955 and sold them under the brand name Swallow . In 1956, Watsonian Squire Sidecars took over the company.

Automobiles

The only model was the Swallow Doretti . This was a two-seater sports car. 276 copies were made of this model.

Web links

Commons : Swallow Coachbuilding Co.  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

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. ↑ a b c d e f g Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b c Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.