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Pressed Steel Company
Pressed Steel Company Limited was a British car body manufacturing business founded at Cowley near Oxford in 1926 as a joint venture between William Morris, Budd Corporation of Philadelphia USA, which held the controlling interest, and a British / American bank J. Henry Schroder & Co. At that time the company was named The Pressed Steel Company of Great Britain Limited. It acquired Budd's patent rights and processes for use in the United Kingdom.Address of the chairman to shareholders. Pressed Steel Company. ''The Times'', Saturday, 22 May 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47691 Morris transferred his interest to his company, Morris Motors Limited. Pressed Steel was acquired in 1965 by the British Motor Corporation and this led to BMC's acquisition of Jaguar later in 1965. At the end of 1966 BMC changed its name to British Motor Holdings (BMH). BMH merged with Leyland Motors in 1968 to create British Leyland and Pressed Steel's businesses were absorbed into the new conglomerate. Many com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowley Motor Works - Geograph
Cowley may refer to: Places Australia * Cowley County, New South Wales *Cowley, Queensland, a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region *Cowley Beach, Queensland * Cowley Creek, Queensland * Lower Cowley, Queensland Canada * Cowley, Alberta England * Cowley, Derbyshire * Cowley, Devon * Cowley, Gloucestershire * Cowley, London * Cowley, Oxfordshire * Cowley Road, Oxford United States * Cowley, Texas * Cowley, Wyoming * Cowley County, Kansas People * Cowley (surname), English-language surname * Cowley Wright (1889–1923), English actor Other uses * Cowley Airport, near Cowley, Alberta, Canada * Cowley Community College, Arkansas City, Kansas * Earl Cowley, a British title See also * Cowley High School (other) Cowley High School can refer to: * ''Cowley High School, Wyoming'' - former high school in Cowley, Wyoming, United States. Replaced by Rocky Mountain High School (Wyoming) * ''Cowley High School, Lancashire'' - former grammar school founded by Sar . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Bromwich
Castle Bromwich () is a large suburban village situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of the West Midlands. It is bordered by the rest of the borough to the south east; also Sutton Coldfield to the east and north east, Shard End to the south west, Castle Vale, Erdington and Minworth to the north and Hodge Hill to the west – all areas of the City of Birmingham. It constitutes a civil parish, which had a population of 11,857 according to the 2001 census, falling to 11,217 at the 2011 census. The population has remained quite stable since then; the 2017 population estimate was 12,309. It was a civil parish within the Meriden Rural District of Warwickshire until the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974, when it became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. In 1861, the population was 613. This rose to just over 1,000 in the 1920s, when half of the original parish was ceded to the City of Birmingham for the construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fisher & Ludlow
Fisher and Ludlow was a British car body manufacturing company based in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. Operation A high volume operation, Fisher and Ludlow built finished and trimmed car bodies which were then trucked to the "manufacturer"'s works to be fitted with all the mechanicals. Ownership It was acquired by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1953. After the merger of BMC and Pressed Steel Company (PSC) in 1966, and the formation of the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC) in 1968, the ''Fisher & Ludlow'' business was merged with the PSC business to form Pressed Steel Fisher Pressed Steel Company Limited was a British car body manufacturing business founded at Cowley near Oxford in 1926 as a joint venture between William Morris, Budd Corporation of Philadelphia USA, which held the controlling interest, and a B ... under BLMC. External links 1950 metal finishing, Morris Minors1950 paint preparation, Standard Vanguards1950 final assembly, Bendix washing machi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Of Britain
Ford of Britain (officially Ford Motor Company Limited)The Ford 'companies' or corporate entities referred to in this article are: * Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, incorporated 16 June 1903 * Ford Motor Company Limited, incorporated 7 December 1928. Current (May 2010) registered office at Eagle Way, Brentwood, Essex, CM13 3BW, manufacturer and seller of motor vehicles and parts * Ford Motor Company (England) Limited, incorporated in 1909, ''purchased by Ford Motor Company Limited December 1928'' * Henry Ford and Son, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1915, incorporated 8 October 1917 * Henry Ford and Son Limited, Cork incorporated 17 April 1917, ''purchased by Ford Motor Company Limited December'' 1928 Holding company for Ford's European and Egyptian businesses and in addition Lincoln Cars Limited, London, and Henry Ford and Son, Cork: * Société d'Investissements Ford, Luxembourg, was liquidated during 1939 and its assets transferred to: * Ford Investment Company Lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briggs Motor Bodies
Briggs may refer to: People * Briggs (surname) * Briggs (rapper), Australian rapper Places ;In the United States * Briggs, Nebraska, an unincorporated community * Briggs, Ohio * Briggs, Oklahoma * Briggs, Texas * Briggs, Virginia * Briggs Lake, a lake in Minnesota ;Elsewhere * Briggs Islet, Tasmania, Australia * Briggs Township, Ontario, Canada ;In space * Briggs (crater), a lunar crater * 4209 Briggs, an asteroid discovered in 1986 Other uses * Briggs & Stratton, a manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines * ''Briggs v. Elliott'', one of the school segregation cases consolidated with ''Brown v. Board of Education'' * Briggs Automotive Company or BAC, a car manufacturing company * Briggs Initiative, either of two pieces of Californian legislation sponsored by John Briggs * Briggs Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of car bodies for Ford and Chrysler * The Briggs, a punk rock band * Myers–Briggs Type Indicator In personality typology, the Myers–Briggs Type Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolls Royce Silver Dawn 1953 4566cc
Roll or Rolls may refer to: Movement about the longitudinal axis * Roll angle (or roll rotation), one of the 3 angular degrees of freedom of any stiff body (for example a vehicle), describing motion about the longitudinal axis ** Roll (aviation), one of the aircraft principal axes of rotation of an aircraft (angle of tilt to the left or right measured from the longitudinal axis) ** Roll (ship motion), one of the ship motions' principal axes of rotation of a ship (angle of tilt to the port or starboard measured from the longitudinal axis) * Rolling ''manoeuvre'', a manoeuvre of any stiff body (for example a vehicle) around its roll axis: ** Roll, an aerobatic maneuver with an airplane, usually referring to an aileron roll, but sometimes instead a barrel roll, rudder roll or slow roll ** Kayak roll, a maneuver used to right a capsized kayak ** Roll program, an aerodynamic maneuver performed in a rocket launch * Roll rate (or roll velocity), the angular speed at which an aircraft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MG Magnette ZA C
MG, Mg, or mg and variants may refer to: Organizations * MG Cars, an automotive marque of the now defunct MG Car Company * MG Motor, a present-day car manufacturing company * MG JW Automobile, a Pakistani automobile manufacturer * Champion Air (IATA code) * Matematička gimnazija, a school in Belgrade * Monte Generoso railway Arts and entertainment * MG, a character in ''The Perhapanauts'' comics * ''Match Game'', a television game show * Magilla Gorilla, a cartoon character Music * '' Main gauche'', "left hand" in piano playing * ''MG'' (Martin Gore album) * The M.G.'s, from the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s * ''The MG's'' (album), an album by the M.G.'s * MG Select, a house duo music production including George Jackson * M:G, real name Maribel Gonzalez, dance music singer Military * Machine gun (MG-), prefix for model designations, for example, "MG42" * Major general, a military rank * Medal for Gallantry, a military decoration Places * Madagascar (ISO 3166-1 country code M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Arthur Robotham
William Arthur Robotham (26 November 1899 - 1980) was a Rolls-Royce executive involved in the development of Rolls-Royce cars, during World War II of tanks and tank engines, and post-war of Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars complete with bodies and then of industrial petrol and diesel engines. Early career William Arthur "Rm" Robotham was born at Shardlow, Derby, William Blews Robotham (1863-1943), his father, was a solicitor and twice Mayor of Derby. Robotham joined Rolls-Royce as a premium apprentice in 1919. In four years the apprentices went to every department of the factory; although they did not have to undertake any study at a technical college, Robotham went to night school two or three evenings a week studying mathematics and engineering drawing. They were paid 5 s per week. He had an "old and slow" Rover motorcycle, and in weekends played golf, tennis or went on Sunday motorcycle outings with other apprentices. Rolls-Royce cars In 1923 after finishing his apprenticesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn
The Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn is a full-size luxury car that was produced by Rolls-Royce at their Crewe works between 1949 and 1955. It was the first Rolls-Royce car to be offered with a factory built body which it shared, along with its chassis, with the Bentley Mark VI until 1952 and then the Bentley R Type until production finished in 1955. The car was first introduced as an export only model. The left hand drive manual transmission models had a column gear change, while right hand drives had a floor change by the door. Only with the R Type based model was it officially available on the home market, from October 1953. In 1944 W. A. Robotham saw that there would be limited postwar demand for Rolls-Royce or Bentley chassis with a body from a specialist coachbuilder, and negotiated with the Pressed Steel Company a contract for a general-purpose body to carry four people in comfort on their postwar chassis behind a Rolls-Royce or Bentley radiator. Though he stretched the demand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentley Mark VI
The Bentley Mark VI is an automobile from Bentley which was produced from 1946 until 1952. The Mark VI 4-door standard steel sports saloon was the first post-war luxury car from Bentley. Announced in May 1946 and produced from 1946 to 1952 it was also both the first car from Rolls-Royce with all-steel coachwork and the first complete car assembled and finished at their factory. These very expensive cars were a genuine success; long-term, their weakness lay in the inferior steels forced on them by government's post-war controls. In 1944 Rolls-Royce executive W. A. Robotham saw that there would be limited postwar demand for a Rolls-Royce or Bentley rolling chassis with a body from a specialist coachbuilder, and negotiated with the Pressed Steel Company a contract for a general-purpose body to carry four people in comfort on their postwar chassis behind a Rolls-Royce or Bentley radiator. Though he stretched the demand to 2000 per year, Pressed Steel were ''"nonplussed"'' by the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rover 12
The Rover 12 was a name given to several medium-sized family cars from the British Rover car company between 1905 and 1948. Rover 10-12 (1905-1907) The Rover 10-12 was the fourth model Rover made, following their 8 hp, 6 hp and 16 hp. It was launched in November 1905 and displayed at that year's Olympia Motor Show. It had a four-cylinder, water-cooled, side-valve, monobloc engine of 1767 cc. Rover 2-cylinder 12 (1909-1910) The new Rover 12 used a two-cylinder, water-cooled, side-valve engine of 1624 cc. The chassis and rear axle of this car would go on to be used in modified form in the 1912 cars. Many of these cars saw use as taxis. Rover sleeve-valve 12 (1910-1912) A supplementary model of Rover 12 with a Knight-Rover two-cylinder, water-cooled, sleeve-valve engine of 1882 cc with a two-seater body was announced in October 1910 for the Olympia Motor Show though Rover's intention to produce it was published in mid-1910. Daimler engines wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillman 20
The Hillman Wizard 75, Hillman Twenty 70, Hillman Hawk and their long wheelbase variants Hillman Seven Seater and Hillman 80 models were a series of 20 horsepower (RAC rating) medium priced 5-7 seater executive cars made by Hillman during the 1930s. Built at a time when body and chassis were quite separate structures Hillman's 20 horsepower chassis was given three different body shapes in five years and a grand total of five different names if the long wheelbase cars are included. The same body shapes and chassis were used for Hillman's 16 horsepower offering though that smaller engine was not offered with their long wheelbase cars. Towards the end of the 1930s the badges of the current models were changed by the Rootes brothers to Humber Snipe. Hillman Wizard 75 1931 a completely new Hillman "The Hillman Wizard, The car for the roads of the world" was designed by the Rootes brothers to capture new export markets and to continue their Super Snipe's challenge to "the America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
