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Chambers Motors
Chambers Motors was the first automobile manufacturer in Ireland. The company built vehicles by hand featuring high-quality components designed and fabricated in-house. Passenger cars were made to suit doctors and wealthy businessmen, and commercial vehicles were produced for duty as delivery vans, ambulances, and hearses. A key feature of the vehicles was a unique design of epicyclic gearbox in the rear axle. Chambers Motors employed around 73 people and built approximately 500 vehicles in 25 years of operation. Origin The founder, Jack Chambers, had earlier designed and constructed the first Vauxhall car in 1902-3 while Managing Director of the Vauxhall Iron Works, London. After resigning in January 1904, he filed a master patent in May 1904 for a Chambers car featuring coil springs and a twin cylinder transverse engine with Roller chain, chain drive. Production Production was undertaken in Cuba Street, Belfast, in association with Jack's brothers Robert and Charlie who h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chambers Motors Logo (1925)
Chambers may refer to: Places Canada: *Chambers Township, Ontario United States: *Chambers County, Alabama *Chambers, Arizona, an unincorporated community in Apache County *Chambers, Nebraska *Chambers, West Virginia *Chambers Township, Holt County, Nebraska *Chambers Branch, a stream in Kansas *Chambers County, Texas Other * ''Chambers Dictionary'' of the English Language * Chambers Harrap, the publishers of Chambers Dictionary * Chambers and Partners, a British organisation that produces international rankings for the legal industry * Chambers of parliament * Chambers (album), ''Chambers'' (album), by Steady & Co. (2001) * Hedingham & Chambers, a bus company in Suffolk and Essex * judge's chambers, a judge's office where some matters are heard out of court * barristers' chambers, in some English-speaking countries a set of rooms from which barristers practice * Chambers (series), ''Chambers'' (series), a BBC Radio 4 legal sitcom starring John Bird which later moved to telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
