VETERAN CAR GUIDE
Royal Enfield George Townsend & Co . was a light engineering company which made sewing machine needles and began making bicycles in the latter part of the 19th century . In 1892 the bicycle business was bought by Albert Eadie and R W Smith . The company name changed to the Enfield Manufacturing Company in 1893 when it was awarded a contract to provide parts to the Royal Small Arms factory in Enfield , and its bicycles were renamed ‘ Royal Enfields ’. The company rebranded again in 1898 , becoming The Enfield Cycle Co . and that same year produced its first motorised vehicle . The 1.5 . hp quadricycle was powered by a single cylinder De Dion engine – and the model would attract much attention in 1900 when one was awarded a silver medal in the 1000-mile London to Edinburgh ( and back ) trial . In 1901 the first Royal Enfield motorcycle was produced and the company ’ s first motor car in 1904 . The Enfield Autocar Co . was created in 1906 , with Enfield Cycle Co . production concentrating on motorcycles . Quadricycle production ceased in 1905 .
Salvesen 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 Siddeley Autocar Company Ltd located in Coventry . The 1902 vehicles had front-mounted vertical engines of two cylinders ( 2300cc ) or four cylinders ( 3300cc ). in 1903 there was also a 6hp single cylinder option that was made by Vickers , which also made vehicles for its parent company , Wolseley . 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 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 .
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 .
Société Manufacture d ’ Armes Société 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 .
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
1904 Star .
60 The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run