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  • ...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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  • ...'' 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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  • ...publisher EMAP in 1998, who sold the former Petersen magazines to Primedia in 2001. As of 2007, it is published by Source Interlink. It has a monthly cir ...covered by the mainstream press as the most important distinction awarded in the American auto industry.
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  • ...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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  • .... 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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  • ...-war [[luxury car]] from [[Bentley Motors Limited|Bentley]]. Produced from 1946 through 1952, it was also the first car from [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Ro ...1951], a 4.6 L (4566 cc/278 in³) version of the engine was introduced.
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  • ...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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  • ...into partnership with them forming De Dion, Bouton et Trépardoux in Paris in 1883. ...e. This still exists in road worthy condition and has been a regular entry in the [[London to Brighton Veteran Car Run]].
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  • [[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
  • ...o Coventry-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
    8 KB (1,066 words) - 08:13, 27 July 2007
  • ...pecialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. It originated in Belgium in 1870 as Carrosserie Vanden Plas. ...receivership. The exclusive UK rights purchase seems also to have gone as in the early 1920s the Belgian firm was exhibiting at the [[London Motor Show]
    5 KB (743 words) - 04:41, 19 February 2007
  • ...nufactured a line of mid-range cars through the 1930's. No longer involved in automobile manufacturing, the company still exists as a successful real est ...r glass company eventually became part of the Owens Glass Co., now the "O" in L-O-F - [[Libby-Owens-Ford]].
    7 KB (1,077 words) - 06:42, 19 February 2007
  • |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' |Production = 1946–1950<br>3311 produced
    10 KB (1,305 words) - 07:43, 25 May 2010
  • ...erm for a rigid, rather than canvas, [[automobile]] roof. It has been used in several contexts: '''detachable hardtops''', '''[[retractable hardtop]] roo Following the ascendancy of steel tops for closed bodies in the 1930s, detachable hardtops with metal roofs began to appear. After Worl
    9 KB (1,359 words) - 18:12, 14 October 2009
  • ...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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  • ...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
  • |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' ...Mercury-specific grille, trim and nameplates. The M-Series was introduced in Canada because smaller communities had either access to a Ford dealer or a
    9 KB (1,195 words) - 21:50, 8 December 2010
  • ...'''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
  • |Image = '''place image here in 300 pixels''' |Length = 3960 mm (155.9 in)
    11 KB (1,529 words) - 18:14, 10 July 2010
  • ...w and innovative concepts which later found their way into mainstream Fiat vehicles; these concepts included fibreglass bodies and [[front-wheel drive]]. ...e]], transmission and differential (final drive) that has become prevalent in its cars today. This car competed with the [[Innocenti]]-built [[Mini]], wh
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