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The Coventry Motor Company or CMC was a
The Coventry Motor Company or CMC was a Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...
motor vehicle manufacturer established in early 1896 by H J Lawson's secretary Charles McRobie Turrell (1875-1923)Lord Montagu and David Burgess-Wise ''Daimler Century'' ; Stephens 1995 as a subsidiary of Lawson's British Motor Syndicate.W.B. Stephens (Editor), Motor-Vehicle Manufacture, ''A History of the County of Warwick'': Volume 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick, 1969, Victoria County History
It operated from the former cotton mills of Coventry Spinning and Weaving Company off Sandy Lane, Radford, which then housed The Daimler Motor Company, The Great Horseless Carriage Company
The Great Horseless Carriage Company Limited was formed in May 1896 with a capital of £750,000 in shares of £10 each "of which £250,0000 was for working capital". The company was formed to carry on the horseless carriage industry in England and ...
(from 1898 The Motor Manufacturing Company) and The New Beeston Cycle Company.
The Coventry Motor Company produced in 1898 the Coventry Motette, a 3½ hp tricar with a single-cylinder engine, a modified version of the Léon Bollée
Léon Bollée (1 April 1870 – 16 December 1913) was a French automobile manufacturer and inventor.
Life
Bollée's family were well known bellfounders and his father, Amédée Bollée (1844–1917), was the major pioneer in the automobile i ...
tricar. These cars were also built, under licence, on those premises in the early years by staff of Humber and Company who had been rehoused there after the Humber works was damaged by fire.
The business was also operated from addresses at Parkside and Conduit Yard off Spon Street. A Mrs H De Veulle drove an example from Coventry to London to show that it could be handled by a woman and to show its reliability.
It ceased to trade around 1903.Coventry Transport Museum
See also
* List of car manufacturers of the United KingdomReferences
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