VETERAN CAR GUIDE
Start of the 2021 Run ; an 1896 Panhard et Levassor and an 1896 Salvesen steam car .
Salvesen ( steam ) HA Salvesen , a member of the family that owned the Christian Salvesen shipping company of Leith near Edinburgh , had built a steam vehicle with coal-fired boiler at the back powering a horizontal , two-cylinder , double-acting engine mounted on a steel chassis . It was steered from the front , with boiler-man at the rear and passengers on wooden benches in between .
Siddeley John Davenport Siddeley offered Peugeot-type motor cars from his 1902 Siddeley Autocar Company Ltd . in Coventry , England . Vickers took over in 1905 .
Stanley ( steam ) The Stanley Brothers built a car in 1897 . It was lightweight and fast , and they entered it in the speed trials of New England ’ s first automobile show , where Francis Stanley drove it to victory . By the end of 1899 , they had made and sold about 200 cars . John Brisbane Walker bought the business and renamed the cars Locomobile . The Stanleys had a year off from motor manufacture and then , in 1902 , started the Stanley Motor Carriage Company . By 1904 , it had four different models , and by mid-1905 the boiler was moved to the front of the car .
Star The Star Motor Company started in Wolverhampton , Staffordshire , England in 1898 as part of the Lisle family enterprises . It had made bicycles since 1883 , but its cars were home-built using a Benz design from 1899 to 1902 . By then , other designs were also available influenced by De Dion and Panhard . By 1904 , its cars were Mercedes-based .
Stevens-Duryea The J . Stevens Arms & Tool Co . of Chicopee Falls , Massachusetts , manufactured its first car in 1901 . They were originally powered by horizontally opposed two-cylinder engines of 5hp that could be started by the driver from a seated position without hand cranking . Steering was by tiller and after 1903 , a threespeed sliding pinion transmission was installed . In 1904 , a 7hp engine was in use .
Sunbeam John Marston founded his bicycle business in Wolverhampton , Staffordshire , England in 1887 . Like so many others he was interested in the new idea of motorcars . After some unique designs such as the Sunbeam-Maberley , he also built a twin-cylinder frontengined car for the 1901 Crystal Palace Show . This was possibly a one-off , and Thomas Pullin was instrumental in the next Sunbeams being built along Berliet lines .
Swift The Swift Motor Company Ltd , Coventry , England was formed as a subsidiary of the Swift Cycle Company Ltd in 1902 . It used De Dion-type engines until 1904 , when two- and three-cylinder engines of Swift ’ s own design were offered .
Talbot The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot was a director and leading shareholder in Clément Talbot Ltd , North Kensington , London , England , which had been importing Clément cars since 1900 . By late 1904 , its factory was assembling cars from French components , and the Clément part of the name was dropped .
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