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• Morgan 4/4
  ...Climax]] engine in 1936 to a 1.8 litre [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] engine in 2004. Introduced 1936, 663 built by 1939 and 249 from 1946 to 1950.
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• 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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• 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
• Lloyd (Germany)
  ...and was owned by the Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping company. The factory was in Bremen. Many of the products of the company and its successors were badged ...connection with the British [[Lloyd Cars]] company active between 1936 and 1951.
  5 KB (774 words) - 08:52, 4 December 2010
• 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.
  5 KB (653 words) - 00:30, 21 February 2007
• Bentley Mark VI
  ...1951], a 4.6 L (4566 cc/278 in³) version of the engine was introduced. [[Category:Bentley vehicles|Mark VI]]
  3 KB (337 words) - 22:23, 4 March 2007
• 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
  4 KB (623 words) - 05:06, 19 February 2007
• Glas
  '''Hans Glas GmbH''' is a former German automotive company, which was based in Dingolfing. ...h steam engine). During the summer periods about 16 people worked for him. In 1905 Andreas Glas' company built their first sowing machines. He then had s
  5 KB (781 words) - 15:28, 4 February 2010
• 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
• 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
  12 KB (1,791 words) - 12:04, 24 May 2010
• Alvis TB 21
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  10 KB (1,348 words) - 09:11, 25 May 2010
• Lotus Mark III
  |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' |Debut = ''pending'' (if not yet introduced)
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• Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych
  ...for Passenger Automobiles'') is a Polish automobile manufacturer, located in Warsaw. The FSO plant was established in 1951 by the Polish government in Żerań on Warsaw's eastern bank of the river Vistula, to produce [[automob
  7 KB (1,142 words) - 11:30, 23 October 2010
• 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
• 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
  9 KB (1,437 words) - 05:27, 19 February 2007
• 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
  11 KB (1,593 words) - 05:13, 19 February 2007
• Power steering
  ...s there has to be a mechanical linkage as a fail safe. Originally invented in the early 20th century, automotive engineers have implemented this now stan ...tion of power steering by the name of Charles F. Hammond an American, born in Detroit, who filed similar patents, the first of which was filed as recorde
  14 KB (2,243 words) - 13:21, 18 May 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
• Simca
  ...a part of [[Chrysler Europe]] and a brand rather than independent company. In 1978, Chrysler divested its European operations to another French automaker ...ros|Barreiros]] (another Chrysler subsidiary) in Spain, and also assembled in Chile, Colombia and the Netherlands <ref>[http://members.home.nl/jurriaankn
  10 KB (1,465 words) - 04:57, 10 November 2007
• 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).
  12 KB (1,829 words) - 07:40, 20 March 2007

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