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Birmingham's Early Car Makers
About the group For anyone interested in the history of the cars that appeared in Birmingham between 1894 and 1939.
Wedi ei greu 26 June 2012
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A view across Saltley toward Adderley Park and the Wolseley/Morris Commercial works.
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An overview of the Wrigley/Morris Commercial car works.
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The EG Wrigley/Morris Commercial car works.
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The EG Wrigley works in Foundry Lane, Smethwick. By 1924 they were occupied by Morris Commercial.
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The BSA, and later Singer, car works in Small Heath under construction.
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A closer, and clearer, view of the Ariel car factory.
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The Ariel car works and the site of the later Patrick Motors works both appear in this photograph.
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In this photo the works of JA Phillips who built the 'Rolfe' cyclecar, Crescent Motors, who built the 'Crescent' cyclecar and EG Wrigley who built the'Wrigley' cyclecar all appear.
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HH Mulliner had his coachbuilding workshops in gas Street and his showrooms in the bottom right of this photograph.
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The Calthorpe and Wolseley works appear behind the Post Office Stores in Fordrough Lane.
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This photo encompasses the works of Ashton-Evans, VAL, Rollo, British Peerless, Lanchester, Revolette, Anglo-French, Calthorpe and Hands.
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The works built to produce the Stellite car just before the First World War and later taken over by Wolseley.
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The Austin Motor Works.
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The Austin motor works.
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The Moss Gear Company were important suppliers of gearboxes to a long list of car manufacturers.
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The Wolseley (later Morris Commercial) car works and, in the background on the other side of the railway, the Calthorpe car works and H H Mulliners coachbuilding works.
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The BSA works in Small Heath were taken over by Singer to produce their Junior, Senior, Bantam and Roadster cars from 1927.
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A remarkable photograph for the number of car factories. The main Lanchester car works were just out of shot bottom left.
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The BSA Armoury Road works were the site of car production from 1907.
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This picture includes both the Adderley Park works owned by Wolseley and then Morris Commercial and the Cherrywood Road works of the Calthorpe Motor Company.
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The Adderley Park Works produced the Wolseley car and, later, the Morris Commercial and Brocklebank cars.
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