Wolseley Motor Company

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Wolseley Motor Company

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legal form Limited Company
founding 1895
resolution 1975
Seat Birmingham , UK
management Herbert Austin (founder)
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Wolseley Motors Ltd bond dated May 6, 1922
Wolseley (1975)

The Wolseley Motor Company was a British automobile manufacturer .

history

In 1895 Herbert Austin began developing three-wheeled vehicles for the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Company's newly founded subsidiary in Birmingham . The first Wolseley automobile was presented in 1896. Austin left the company in 1905 and started his own company. Between 1905 and 1910 the designer John Davenport Siddeley ran the company, the vehicles were marketed as Wolseley-Siddeley . During this time, the company developed the first snowmobile that was used on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . In memory of this, the Wolseley Buttress massif on the Antarctic Peninsula bears the manufacturer's name. During the First World War , Wolseley Hispano-Suiza - V8 aircraft engines produced under license.

In 1927 Wolseley went bankrupt and was taken over by Morris . Since then, identical parts have been used in models from the Morris, MG and Wolseley brands . After the Second World War , the Wolseley models became more and more similar to the Morris models. In 1949 production facilities were relocated to the Morris factory in Cowley . From then on, automobiles offered under the brand name Wolseley were only more luxuriously equipped variants of Morris models (so-called badge engineering ). In 1975, the new parent company, British Leyland , stopped producing automobiles with the brand name Wolseley; the last Wolseley was a high quality version of the BLMC ADO71 .

Models 1898-1915

Wolseley from 1903
Wolseley from 1904
Wolseley Hornet-Saloon (Bj. 1932, 6 cylinder, 55 HP, 1300 cm³)
Wolseley Hornet-Saloon, dashboard (Bj. 1932, 6 cylinder, 55 HP, 1300 cm³)
Wolseley Wasp (YOC around 1936)
Type Construction period cylinder Displacement
Wolseley 3 1/2 hp 1898-1901 1 1296 cc
Wolseley 5 hp 1901-1905 1 1296 cc
Wolseley 6 1905-1910 1 1246-1295 cc
Wolseley 7 1/2 1902 1 809 cc
Wolseley 8 1906-1910 2 1635 cc
Wolseley 10 1901-1905 2 2593 cc
Wolseley 12 1905-1910 2 2492-2593 cc
Wolseley 12/16 1911-1912 4th 2226-2373 cc
Wolseley 16 1906-1910 4th 3335 cc
Wolseley 16/20 1911-1915 4th 3080 cc
Wolseley 20/28 1911-1912 4th 4250 cc
Wolseley 24 1902-1910 4th 5187 cc
Wolseley 24/30 1911-1915 6th 4961 cc
Wolseley 30/34 1911 4th 5558 cc
Wolseley 30/40 1914-1915 6th 6864 cc
Wolseley 35/40 1912 4th 5981 cc
Wolseley 40 1911 4th 7096 cc
Wolseley 45 1902 3 8442 cc
Wolseley 50 1911-1915 6th 8928 cc
Wolseley Racing 1901 4th 2600 cc

Models 1919-1948

Type Construction period Cylinder / valve control Displacement power
Wolseley 7 1922-1925 2 / sv 983 cc
Wolseley 8 1946-1948 4 / ohv 918 cc 33 bhp (24.2 kW)
Wolseley 9 1934-1935 4 / ohv 1018 cc
Wolseley 10 1920-1925 4 / ohc 1260 cc
Wolseley 10 1939-1948 4 / ohv 1140 cc 40 bhp (29 kW)
Wolseley 10/40 1937 4 / ohv 1292 cc
Wolseley 11/22 1925-1929 4 / ohv 1261 cc
Wolseley 12 1938-1948 4 / ohv 1548 cc 44 bhp (32 kW)
Wolseley 12/32 1928-1930 4 / ohv 1532 cc
Wolseley 14 1923-1926 4 / sv 2613 cc
Wolseley 14 1935-1937 6 / ohv 1604 cm³
Wolseley 14 1938-1940 6 / ohv 1818 cc 55 bhp (40 kW)
Wolseley 14/56 1937-1939 6 / ohv 1818 cc
Wolseley 15/40 1921-1925 4 / ohc 2614 cc
Wolseley 16 1933-1934 6 / ohc 2025 cm³ 50 bhp (37 kW)
Wolseley 16 1936-1938 6 / ohv 2062 cc
Wolseley 16/20 1919-1921 4 / sv 3079 cc
Wolseley 16/35 1925-1927 4 / sv 2614 cc
Wolseley 16/45 1927-1933 6 / ohc 2025 cm³
Wolseley 16/65 1938-1939 6 / ohv 2062 cc 67 bhp (49 kW)
Wolseley 18th 1935 6 / ohv 2299 cc
Wolseley 18th 1939-1940 6 / ohv 2321 cc 85 bhp (62.5 kW)
Wolseley 18/80 1938 6 / ohv 2322 cc
Wolseley 20th 1921/1926 6 / sv 3921 cc
Wolseley 21 1936-1940 6 / ohv 2916 cc 90 bhp (66 kW)
Wolseley 21/60 1928-1931 8 / ohv 2681 cc
Wolseley 21/60 1929-1935 6 / ohc 2677 cm³
Wolseley 24/30 1919-1925 6 / sv 4962-5344 cc
Wolseley 24/55 1925 6 / sv 3921 cc
Wolseley 25 1936-1948 6 / ohv 3485 cc 105 bhp (77 kW)
Wolseley 30/40 1919-1921 6 / sv 6863 cc
Wolseley 32/80 1929-1930 8 / ohv 4022 cc
Wolseley Hornet 1931-1933 6 / ohc 1271 cc 47 bhp (34.5 kW)
Wolseley Hornet Special 1935-1936 6 / ohc 1378 cc
Wolseley Viper 1931 6 / ohc 2025 cm³
Wolseley Wasp 1936 4 / ohc 1069 cc 32 bhp (23.5 kW)

Models 1948 - 1975

Type Construction period Cylinder / valve control Displacement power
Wolseley 4/44 1952-1956 4 / ohv 1250 cc 46 bhp (34 kW)
Wolseley 4/50 1948-1953 4 / ohc 1476 cc 51 bhp (38 kW)
Wolseley 6/80 1948-1954 6 / ohc 2215 cc 72 bhp (53 kW)
Wolseley 6/90 1954-1959 6 / ohv 2639 cc 95 - 101 bhp (70 - 75 kW)
Wolseley 6/99 1959-1961 6 / ohv 2912 cc 117 bhp (86 kW)
Wolseley 6/110 1961-1968 6 / ohv 2912 cc 120 bhp (88 kW)
Wolseley 15/50 1956-1958 4 / ohv 1489 cc 50 - 55 bhp (37 - 40 kW)
Wolseley 15/60 1958-1961 4 / ohv 1489 cc 55 bhp (40 kW)
Wolseley 16/60 1961-1971 4 / ohv 1622 cc 61 bhp (45 kW)
Wolseley 18/85 1967-1972 4 / ohv 1798 cc 84 - 96 bhp (62 - 70.5 kW)
Wolseley 24/80 1962-1967 6 / ohv 2433 cc 80 - 84 bhp (59 - 62 kW)
Wolseley 1100 1965-1968 4 / ohv 1098 cc 55 bhp (40 kW)
Wolseley 1300 1967-1973 4 / ohv 1275 cc 60 - 65 bhp (44 - 48 kW)
Wolseley 1500 1958-1965 4 / ohv 1489 cc 50 bhp (37 kW)
Wolseley 2200 1975 6 / ohv 2227 cc 100 bhp (74 kW)
Wolseley Hornet 1961-1970 4 / ohv 848-998 cc 34 - 38 bhp (25 - 28 kW)
Wolseley Oxford Taxi 1947-1955 4 / ohv 1802 cc
Wolseley Six 1972-1975 6 / ohv 2227 cc 100 bhp (74 kW)
Wolseley 1975 6 / ohv 2227 cc 105 bhp (77 kW)

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