VETERAN CAR GUIDE 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.
1900 Stephens.
Salvesen H. A. 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.
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 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
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.
Thomas Erwin Ross Thomas spent his early working life in the railway business before manufacturing Cleveland cycles and motorcycles. By 1902 he had established the E. R. Thomas Motor Company and launched the single cylinder Thomas 16 with a single cylinder 8hp engine under the front seat. The following year, a three-cylinder 24hp car, known as the Flyer, emerged. In three years, the Thomas had progressed from a typical small-engined motor car, little different from many other American makes, to one of the highest
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