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• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...g with [[Crossley Motors]] the new group was renamed Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV) Ltd. ...with a single overhead camshaft and pressure lubrication. It was followed in 1903 by a six cylinder version, possibly the first overhead camshaft six to
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• Morris
  ...tion of the company into larger corporations, the ''Morris'' name remained in use as a marque until 1984. ...rger car, the 2-seat and 4-seat [[Morris Cowley (1915)|Morris Cowley]] was introduced.
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• Singer
  ...ry, England. It was acquired by the [[Rootes Group]] of the United Kingdom in 1956. The British Singer company had no connection with the Singer company ...nge of larger cars introduced. All cars were now White and Poppe powered. In 1911 the first big seller appeared with the 1100cc Ten with Singer's own en
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• Centigon
  ...s purchased by BAE Systems. BAE sold Centigon to Carat Duchatelet Holdings in February 2008. ...lso builds [[armored personnel carrier]]s, mobile water cannon and pursuit vehicles. The company is the prime contractor to the U.S. Military for the supply of
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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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• Albion Motors
  ...tems, crankshafts and chassis components. It is Scotland's best known name in the motor industry. Albions were renowned for their superior engineering an ...ow and had only seven employees. In 1903 the company moved to new premises in Scotstoun.
  7 KB (951 words) - 05:26, 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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• Crosley
  ...y the ''Crosley Corporation'' and later by ''Crosley Motors Incorporated'' in the United States from 1939 to 1952. (It must not be confused with the [[Cr ...for $250. It wasn't an instant success, but in 1941 more body styles were introduced.
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• Lincoln Zephyr
  ...ilable as a coupe or a sedan. In 1937, a three-window coupe was added, and in 1938 a convertible coupe and sedan were added as well. The name was discont ...not large but accounted for a large portion of the Lincoln brand's sales. In its first year, 15,000 were sold, accounting for 80% of Lincoln's total sal
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• Lotus Mark I
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• Morgan Four Seater
  ...y it is offered as a four-cylinder Plus 4 or with the Ford V-6 engine used in the [[Morgan Roadster]]. ...convenience in being able to carry more than two people, or to carry cargo in the rear seat, making them very practical for long-distance touring. Report
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• Hino Motors
  ...mpany has been the leading producer of medium and heavy-duty diesel trucks in Japan. It is owned by [[Toyota]]. ...It produced its first motor vehicle in 1913, the Model TGE "A-Type" truck. In 1937 TG&E merged its automobile division with that of Automobile Industry C
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• Packard Clipper
  [[Image:1946packclip.jpg|thumb|300px|In 1946, Packard applied Clipper styling and name to all its post-war models]] Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options should be
  13 KB (1,780 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2008
• Colin Chapman
  ...s. Lotus is one of but a handful of British performance car builders still in business after the industrial decline of the 1970s. Chapman died of a heart ...tus 6 kits were sold through 1956. It was with the [[Lotus Seven|Lotus 7]] in 1957 that things really took off, and indeed [[Caterham Cars]] still manufa
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• Morris Minor
  ...ut to the bone. The Morris Minor, when compared with competitor products in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, excelled as a roomy vehicle with s ...as also lightweight and rear wheel drive, with the possibility of swapping in the [[Rover K-Series engine]] or the [[Fiat Twin Cam engine|Fiat Twin Cam]]
  9 KB (1,391 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2007
• Virgil Exner
  ...to drawing advertisements for [[Studebaker]] trucks. They had a second son in 1940, Brian, who tragically fell from a window and later died from his inju ...t most of the credit for the car's design. In 1949 Exner started working in [[Chrysler]]'s '''Advanced Styling Group''', where he partnered with [[Clif
  7 KB (1,075 words) - 16:15, 11 October 2009
• Alta Car and Engineering Company
  ...en twin overhead [[camshafts]], which he designed himself. It was offered in normal or [[supercharger|supercharged]] form giving 49 or 76[[Horsepower|bh ...car was capable of 120 mph and 0-60 mph in 7 seconds. In 1937 the company introduced front [[independent suspension]] to the chassis. They became popular among
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• Mercury
  ...roman god of speed who was the messenger of the gods, which was reflected in its focus during its early years on performance. The Mercury brand was phased out in 2010, while Ford Motor Company will focus on the Ford and [[Lincoln]] brand
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• Front wheel drive
  ...oday feature [[transverse engine|transverse]] engine mounting, though many in prior decades were positioned [[longitudinal engine|longitudinal]]ly instea ...[[Alvis Cars]] of the United Kingdom introduced a front wheel drive model in 1928, but it was not a success.
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• Overdrive
  ...to two different things. An overdrive is a device which was commonly used in [[automobiles]] to allow the choice of an extra-high overall [[gear ratio]] ...le]] which results in the output speed being greater than the input speed. In the latter case, "overdrive" does not refer to a physically separate identi
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