VETERAN CAR GUIDE
1903 Sunbeam boiler was moved to the front of the car , where it was covered with a coffin like bonnet and then the tiller was replaced with a wheel .
Star The Star Motor Company of Wolverhampton was owned by the Lisle family who had made a fortune in cycle manufacture , In the early years , Star relied upon designs of other cars for their production , starting with Benz in 1899 . From 1902 there were two De Dion Bouton-engined cars and three Panhard-like cars with 8hp , 10hp , and 24hp four-cylinder engines . The 1904 Stars all had four-cylinder engines of 12hp , 18hp , and 24hp that were built on Mercedes lines with honeycomb radiators , mechanically operated inlet valves and pressed steel frames .
Societe Manufacture d ’ Armes Societe Manufacture d ’ Armes was an armament maker in St Etienne , France . It also built bicycles and chassis for other makers before starting to make complete cars from 1904 . There is only one known survivor , which is fitted with an Aster engine .
Spyker Spyker was started in 1880 by brothers Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker , who built the Golden Coach still used today by the Dutch Royal family . Automobile production began in 1900 with a four-seater voiturette with two-cylinder 3hp or 5hp engines . In 1903 fourcylinder models were introduced , together with the Spyker 60 HP race car , which was the first car in the world with a six-cylinder engine , the first petrol-driven car with four-wheel drive and the first car with a braking system connected to all four wheels . The 1905 cars featured a round radiator grille , as seen on the 2 / 16 HP Double Phaeton which starred alongside the Darracq Genevieve in the eponymous 1953 movie . In 1907 , an 18hp Spyker finished second in the gruelling Peking to Paris race .
Stanley The Stanley Brothers made their fortunes in the photographic industry . They had built a steam 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 Brisben 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
Stephens R Stephens built bicycles at Clevedon , near Bristol , England . He made a few vehicles over the 1898 to 1900 period with drive by belts to a countershaft and chains to the rear wheels .
Stevens-Duryea The J . Stevens Arms & Tool Co . of Chicopee Falls , Massachusetts , manufactured its first car in 1901 . It was originally powered by horizontally opposed 5hp two-cylinder engines that could be started by the driver from a seated position without hand cranking . It had wire wheels , sliding gear transmission , and tiller steering . By 1904 , the company had pioneered threepoint mounting of its engine , and in the following year a four-cylinder engine was developed .
Sunbeam John Marston founded his bicycle business in Wolverhampton , in 1887 , and like many others he was interested in the new idea of motorcars . After some unique designs such as the De Dion Bouton-powered Sunbeam-Maberley , which had four wheels in a diamond pattern with three seats facing sideways and outwards in the manner of a Victorian sofa , he built a twin-cylinder front-engined car for the 1901 Crystal Palace Show , which was possibly a one-off . Thomas Pullinger was recruited to develop a range of vehicles and it was his suggestion to base the development on the French Berliet . Chassis were imported until Sunbeam began building their own and imported the engines and gearboxes . The engine was a 10 / 12hp 2412cc four-cylinder unit , and it became the mainstay of production until the end of 1905 .
Thornycroft John I . Thornycroft & Co . started life as shipbuilders on the Thames at Chiswick . In 1896 , it made its first
58 The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run