VETERAN CAR GUIDE
known as the Waverley Department of Pope Motor Company . All models were electric . The Waverley was originally a small two-seater runabout but by 1902 a four-seater model was introduced . Variants included the Pope-Waverley Chelsea , a two-seater with single electric motor and 30 batteries and the five-seater Pope-Waverley Tonneau , with twin electric motors each producing 3hp , an armoured wood frame and 40 batteries .
Westfield C . J . Moore built a steam car before he started the C . J . Moore Manufacturing Company in Westfield , Massachusetts , USA . In 1903 he turned to building petrol cars , using proprietary engines to customer specification .
White Rollin White of Cleveland , USA , started steam-car production in 1900 . His prototype , powered by a flash boiler or generator ( White ’ s preferred term for a boiler ) was ready in 1899 . It was a light two-seater with horizontal engine under the floor , and 18 were sold in 1900 . White ’ s steam cars had a reputation for being long-lived , and 387 had been manufactured by the end of 1901 . From 1902 , a large rectangular frontal condenser was in use . The Model C of 1903 had a front -mounted engine , a four-seater tonneau body , wheel steering and shaft drive . It was the first White steamer to have a compound engine , in which the steam is condensed and re-used in a low-pressure cylinder . By 1904 , the Model D was available with an enclosed limousine body .
Wilson Pilcher Designed by Walter G . Wilson and Percy Pilcher this was an advanced car with a four-cylinder horizontally opposed engine and four-speed with reverse , epicyclic gearbox . The engine was initially 2.4 litres , but was enlarged to 2.7 litres in 1903 . Production was transferred in 1904 from London to the Newcastle upon Tyne works of Armstrong Whitworth . Car production ceased in 1907 . Wilson was a prodigious designer , involved in the development of England ’ s first tank in 1915 and , latterly , his most famous design was for the self-changing , pre-selector gearbox used on many sporting vehicles in the 1930s .
Winton ( USA ) Alexander Winton emigrated from Scotland to America , worked as a marine engineer and set up his own cycle manufacturing business in Cleveland , before experimenting with motor cars from 1896 , when he created a single cylinder , dos a dos four-seater with tiller steering . His four production cars made in
1897 had two-seater bodies , horizontal single cylinder engines and two-speed gearboxes . In 1898 , 22 of these were sold , as well as eight petrol-driven delivery vehicles . In 1899 , more than 100 vehicles were made , making him the largest producer of petrol-engined vehicles in the USA . Winton used competitions to raise the profile of his vehicles , although his first attempt to compete against Fernand Charron ’ s Panhard with a 3800cc single cylinder car in the 1900 Gordon Bennett event did not meet with success . A second attempt in the 1903 event , this time with two vehicles : an 8500cc four-cylinder horizontal in-line engine and a 17000cc eight-cylinder leviathan also failed when both retired early . Production cars , however , flourished , principally with two-seater vehicles in 1901 and 1902 . A larger 20hp four-seater vehicle arrived in 1903 , and was used , in two-seater format , to undertake an epic journey across America from San Francisco to New York in May-July 1903 .
Wolseley Frederick Wolseley , who gave his name to one of the most important names in British motoring , played little part in its history . That accolade belongs to one of his employees , Herbert Austin , who initially experimented with three-wheelers , and built the first Wolseley four-wheel motor car in 1899 . It had a front-mounted horizontal single cylinder engine of 1302cc , developing 5hp , steering was by tiller , and it had chain final drive . This car was very successful in the Thousand Miles Trial of 1900 , driven by Austin . Car production did not begin in earnest until Vickers purchased the Wolseley motor department in 1901 , and created facilities at Adderley Park , Birmingham . Here two motor cars were initially made : a single-cylinder 5hp and a twin-cylinder 10hp version . They had the same basic layout as the 1899 / 1900 vehicle with the distinctive wraparound tubular radiators although chain primary drive replaced the belts of the original four-wheeler . In 1902 a 20hp four-cylinder model was added , which was uprated to 24hp in 1904 , but the smaller cars were more popular . -
1902 Wolseley .
62 The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run