Vining Tractor & Motor Manufacturing Company

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Vining Tractor & Motor Manufacturing Company Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles and commercial vehicles .

FD (1911)

Company history

The company from the London borough of Shepherd's Bush manufactured buses , tractors and engines , which were marketed as Vining-Hallett . In 1907 the production of cars began. The brand name was FD . In the same year their production ended.

Automobiles

FD was for Front Drive , so front-wheel drive . A four-cylinder engine was mounted transversely in the front of the vehicle . The engine power was transmitted via a chain to the transmission above, and from there via spur gears to the front wheels. Probably only one or two copies of this model were made.

There was also a taxi , also with front-wheel drive.

literature

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. ↑ a b c George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).