The Armadale was an
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automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
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manufactured from 1906 to 1907 by Armadale Motors Ltd,
Northwood, Middlesex, then Northwood Motor & Engineering Works, also of Northwood.
Models
Three wheel
Initially called the Toboggan, the Armadale Tri-car, so-called the "perfect little three-wheeler" featured infinitely variable
friction drive
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and a pressed steel
chassis, unusual in a
tricar
A three-wheeler is a vehicle with three wheels. Some are motorized tricycles, which may be legally classed as motorcycles, while others are tricycles without a motor, some of which are human-powered vehicles and animal-powered vehicles.
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. It used either a one-cylinder
Aster or a 2-cylinder
Fafnir engine.
Four wheel
In 1906, the company listed a conventional 4-wheeler with a 16 hp 4-cylinder engine.
Tourist Trophy Race of 1906
An Armadale car, owned or driven by A.C. Godwin Smith, was entered in the
Tourist Trophy Race in the
Isle of Man
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on 27 September 1906 but it did not start.
See also
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List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
References
Brass Era vehicles
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Vehicle manufacture in London
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