VETERAN CAR GUIDE
Thornycroft John I . Thornycroft & Co . started life as shipbuilders on the Thames at Chiswick . In 1896 , it made its first commercial steam vehicle . In 1898 , it moved vehicle production to Basingstoke , Hampshire , adding highquality petrol-driven passenger cars from 1903 . Two models were made , a 10hp twin-cylinder and a 20hp four-cylinder , but the company ceased car production in 1913 to concentrate on commercial vehicles .
Tony Huber Tony Huber was an engineer who built engines under his own name . In 1902 , he registered Automobiles Tony Huber , Billancourt , Seine , France and launched a range of cars with both two and four cylinders . In 1905 , he formed a company with Armand Peugeot to make engines , motorboats and electrical equipment .
Vallée Henri Valle set up a company to make bicycles in 1890 . In 1895 he built a tubular chassis motorcar powered by a twin-cylinder horizontal engine of his own design that was exhibited at the Paris Salon that year . The following year he launched two new vehicles : a fourseater vis-à-vis and a four-seat Victoria . In 1897 he was manufacturing vehicles with an assortment of 4hp , 5hp , and 7hp engines , which continued until 1902 , when he began to produce motorcycles .
Vauxhall The parent company made marine engines in London and dated back to 1857 . It began to experiment with petrol engines in the late 1890s , developing a singlecylinder unit that was fitted into the first car in 1903 . About 70 of these were sold , and an improved version with wheel steering , reverse gear , and a 6hp engine was available in 1904 . About 105 of these were made , and they were not available after 1904 . In 1905 , the company moved to Luton .
Vulcan In 1899 , two brothers , Thomas and Joseph Hampson , built a prototype car in Bolton , England . Three years later they formed the Vulcan Motor & Engineering Company Ltd , and a factory in Southport started production of a front-engined , single-cylinder car with radiators on the side bonnet in Renault style . In 1903 , it offered an improved 6hp or 9hp version , then in 1904 the radiator was moved to the front and a 10hp twincylinder was available . light steam runabout that was actually powered by a De Dion petrol engine , vertically mounted , of either 3.5 or 6hp plus two-speed transmission , tubular frame and tiller steering . In 1903 , Warwick made its own engine ; two- and three-cylinder models were subsequently introduced in 1904 .
White ( steam ) Rollin White of Cleveland , USA , started steam-car production in 1900 . His prototype , powered by a flash boiler , was around in 1899 . It was a light two-seater with horizontal engine under the floor , and 18 were sold in 1900 . By 1904 , the first White with a compound engine appeared , in which the steam is condensed and reused in a low-pressure cylinder .
Wolseley Frederick York Wolseley employed Herbert Austin , who experimented with three-wheelers , and the first Wolseley four-wheeler appeared in 1899 . This car was very successful in the Thousand Miles Trial of 1900 , driven by Herbert Austin . In 1901 , it was acquired by Vickers , the armaments firm , moved to a new factory in Birmingham , England and produced single-cylinder 5hp and twin-cylinder 10hp versions – still with the distinctive wraparound tubular radiators . From 1904 , a 6hp single-cylinder car with a sloping radiator was made at another Vickers factory in Crayford , Kent .
Yale This was the brand name of the Kirk Manufacturing Co . of Toledo , Ohio – originally a bicycle manufacturer . The first car was a light 10hp twin-cylinder with epicyclic transmission and single chain drive , and with detachable tonneau body ; it sold for $ 1500 . By 1904 , quoted power had risen to 16hp . It merged in 1903 with two other cycle manufacturers to form the Consolidated Manufacturing Co ., and began to produce larger vehicles . -
1904 Wolseley .
Warwick The Warwick Cycle and Automobile Company of Springfield , Massachusetts , USA , made bicycles before moving to a vehicle resembling a traditional
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