Tarrant Motor & Engineering Company

The Tarrant Motor & Engineering Company in Melbourne was an early automobile manufacturer in Australia. The company was founded in 1901 by Colonel Harley Tarrant .

description

After building 16 motor vehicles, it became clear that manufacturing in Australia was not profitable given the level of foreign automotive technology, especially mass production.

In 1908 Tarrant took over the sales of Ford automobiles and stopped building his cars.

The Tarrant was a two-seater roadster with a front-mounted engine. The side-controlled four-cylinder in-line engine had a displacement of 3.5 l and developed an output of 16-18 bhp (11.8-13.2 kW).

The last surviving Tarrant was bought by the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria in 2002 .

In 1984 the car was featured on an Australian Postage stamp as part of a batch of five early Australian automobiles.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Tarrant.
• 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 , p. 1570. (English)

Web links

• Colonel Harley Tarrant in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} History and photo of the Tarrant on the RACV website (English) , RACV; Web archive: (Version v. 2009)
2. ↑ Photo of the Australian Post's “Tarrant” stamp from 1984