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• Vintage car
  ...od while the official classic definition does not, only including high-end vehicles of the period. Some consider the start of World War II to be the end date o ...roduction at the end of this period was not matched again until the 1950s. In the intervening years, most industrialised states built nationwide [[road]]
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• Henri Chapron
  ...French automobile coachbuilder. His atelier, created in 1919, was located in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. ...for French luxury vehicles, like [[Talbot]], [[Delage]], and [[Delahaye]], in the 1940s.
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• Bean Cars Ltd.
  ...de in factories in Dudley and Tipton, Staffordshire, Great Britain between 1919 and 1929. ...tion of the model peaked at 80 a week in 1922 with about 10,000 being made in total.
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• Arrol-Johnston
  ...Mo-Car. A company was formed in 1901 called the Mo-Car Syndicate Ltd based in Paisley, to produce it which was headed by [[Sir William Arrol]], an engine ...). For 1912 a 1794 cc 11·9hp, a 3640 cc 20·9 hp and a 3618 cc 23·8hp were introduced.
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• Owen Magnetic
  ...land, Ohio between 1916 and 1919 and finally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1920 and 1921. ...e Entz transmission thus each of the 250 Owen Magnetic automobile produced in New York were built under license.
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• Lea-Francis
  ...'' and '''[[Graham Ingoldsby Francis]]''' started the business in Coventry in 1895. ...Singer]] company. In 1919 they started to build their own cars from bought in components.
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• GN
  ...frey (1887-1968) and Archibald Frazer Nash (1889-1965). Production ceased in 1923 but the company kept trading until 1925. ...heels. The two seat car was very light weighing only about 180 kg so in spite of the low power available 60 mph (100 km/h) was achievable
  3 KB (578 words) - 06:44, 19 February 2007
• Hotchkiss et Cie
  ...were made between 1903 and 1955 by the French company [[Hotchkiss et Cie]] in Saint-Denis, Paris. The badge for the marque showed a pair of crossed canno ...nhard et Levassor]], [[De Dion-Bouton]] and other pioneering companies and in 1903 they went on to make complete engines. Encouraged by two major car dis
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• Hispano-Suiza
  ...iod. Today they are part of the French SAFRAN Group, while the Spanish arm in 1946 was taken over by Enasa, the maker of [[Pegaso]] trucks and sport cars ...es''' (''Spanish-Swiss Car Factory''), but this company also went bankrupt in December 1903.
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• Armstrong Siddeley
  ...oventry-based companies, [[Armstrong-Whitworth]] and [[Siddeley-Deasy]] in 1919. ...glish bodies. This company merged with [[Wolseley Motor Company|Wolseley]] in 1905 and made stately Wolseley-Siddeley motorcars. They were used by Queen
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• Straight-8 engine
  ...ed in a straight line along the [[crankcase]]. The type has been produced in [[side valve]], [[overhead valve]] and [[overhead cam]] configurations. .... However, [[crankshaft]] [[torsional vibration]], present to some degree in all engines, is sufficient to require the use of a [[harmonic damper]] at t
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• Automobilwerk Eisenach
  ...''Automobilwerk Eisenach''' ('''AWE''') was an [[automobile]] manufacturer in Eisenach, Germany. ...e end of the 19th century employed 1,300 workers, being one of the largest in Thuringia.
  6 KB (966 words) - 05:29, 19 February 2007
• Hispano-Suiza H6
  |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' |Production = 1919 - 1933
  12 KB (1,668 words) - 04:13, 22 September 2010
• Lanchester Motor Company
  ...in charge and the engine moved further forward to a conventional position in the sporting side valve 5.5 litre six cylinder Forty. ...ty was finally replaced by the Thirty with straight eight 4.4 litre engine in 1928.
  6 KB (893 words) - 06:21, 19 February 2007
• Rootes
  ...over in stages by [[Chrysler]], and subsequently sold to [[Peugeot]] and, in part, [[Renault]]. Originally founded in Kent in 1919 by [[William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes|William Rootes]] as a car sale
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• Jowett
  ...cles were made before an improved version with wheel steering was launched in 1913 and a further 36 were made before the outbreak of the First World War ...nance and braking was on all four wheels. Production was briefly suspended in September 1931 when fire swept through the works.
  7 KB (1,109 words) - 06:26, 19 February 2007
• Alvis Cars
  ...dom from 1919 to 1967. The company also produced aero-engines and military vehicles, the latter continuing long after car production ceased. ...e Alvis as a compound of the words "aluminium" and "vis" (meaning 'strong' in Latin)although de Freville himself vigorously denied this theory. Perhaps t
  12 KB (1,702 words) - 10:22, 25 May 2010
• Riley
  ...nufacturer from 1890. The company became part of the Nuffield Organisation in 1938 and was later merged into [[British Leyland Motor Corporation|British ...rom producing motorcycles to his first prototype four-wheeled quadricycle. In 1900, Riley sold a single three-wheeled automobile, but the company could n
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• Frederick W. Lanchester
  ...now, part of Imperial College, Kensington. He supplemented his instruction in applied engineering by attending evening classes at Finsbury Technical Scho When he completed his education in 1888, he took a job as a Patent Office draughtsman for £3 a week. About th
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• Hudson
  ...'''Hudson Motor Car Company''' made Hudson and other brand [[automobile]]s in Detroit, Michigan, from 1909 to 1957. ..., would later be president of Hudson-Nash descendant American Motors Corp. in the 1960s).
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