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	The Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) was founded in 1861 by fourteen gunsmiths in Birmingham, England, to supply ...
		The Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) was founded in 1861 by fourteen gunsmiths in Birmingham, England, to supply arms to the British government during the Crimean War.
		The company continued after the conflict but branched out into other fields; in the 1880s the company began to manufacture bicycles and in 1903 the company's first experimental motorcycle was constructed.
		Their first prototype automobile was produced in 1907 and the next year the company sold 150 automobiles.
	www.birminghamuk.com /wikipedia/Birmingham_Small_Arms_Company.htm (443 words)

	A Short History of Motor Boating [1906]
		Lanchester, the designer of the well-known car of that name, for the design and construction of a motor vessel in the year 1895.
		The inauguration of motor boating in this country as a sport and pastime, and also tentatively for commercial purposes, may be said to date from the employment of a trustworthy system of electric ignition of the explosive charge.
		The general sensation of driving a motor boat is very reminiscent of a stroll beneath Niagara Falls, with this difference, that in the former case you are unable to gain relief by shutting your eyes, as it is necessary to keep a sharp look out.
	www.lesliefield.com /other_history/a_short_history_of_motor_boating.htm (3010 words)

	Lanchester Models
		By the end of 1901 motor salesman were claiming the Panhard et Levassor system as the only possible method of building a motor car and the efforts of engineers were concentrated on improving a design admittedly bristling with makeshifts.
		Lanchester adopted much the same approach as John Harrison had brought, in the eighteenth century, to the task of making the first marine chronometer.
		To Dr Lanchester the motor-car was merely a stepping stone in his research into the theory of aerodynamics, in which sphere he became an acknowledged authority.
	www.daimler.co.uk /lanchestermodels/html/lanchester.htm (471 words)

	Lanchester history
		Three, of eight Lanchester brothers were involved in the motor industry, Frederick (born 1868), Frank (born 1870) and George (born 1874).
		In 1904 the Lanchester Engine Company was forced into bankruptcy due to the incompetence of the Directors, and was immediately reformed as The Lanchester Motor Company.
		Lanchesters had a reputation for reliability and innovation and a range of two, four and six-cylinder models were produced prior to The Great War, including Lanchesters only sports car.
	www.histomobile.com /histomob/internet/290/histo02.htm (432 words)

	Guggenheim
		Lanchester is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the Institution of Automobile Engineers, an Associate of the National Academy and the Institution of Naval Architects, and an Honory Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
		Lanchester was one of the original members of the Aeronautical Research Committee under the Chairmanship of Lord Rayleigh.
		Lanchester is also well known for his work in other fields; his invention of the pendulum accelerometer, which dates from 1889, opened up a new method of measuring and recording tractive and brake effort.
	www.lanchester.com /Guggenheim.html (1434 words)

	Lanchester Motor Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company was started by Frederick Lanchester, one of the most influential automobile engineers of the 19th and 20th century.
		The company was taken over in 1931 by BSA who also owned an upmarket brand in the British Daimler company and production moved to their Coventry factory.
		The parent company, Daimler, was in decline and in 1960 was absorbed by Jaguar, who used the Daimler name in the same way Daimler had used the Lanchester name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lanchester_Motor_Company (717 words)

	Behring biography
		To say that the Lanchester was different hardly does justice to one of the most remarkable automobiles of the Edwardian Age.
		All over England, vintage Lanchesters were still being driven daily during the late 1930s-long after the company had been absorbed by Daimler and its inventor had turned his talents to optics, music, relativity, radiation, and poetry.
		Frederick Lanchester died on March 8, 1946, at the age of seventy-seven.
	www.lanchester.com /Behring1.html (924 words)

	Background Information - Motor Manufacturers in Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The company was subsequently privatised and the motor car division operated under the Rover Group name until 1994 when the company was sold to the German firm BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG).
		The motor car was in great demand at the time, there were only about 8,500 cars on the road, the technology had reached a stage where they were practical and the infrastructure of petrol stations and garages with trained mechanics was becoming established.
		Jaguar acquired Daimler Company in 1957 and in 1966 Jaguar was acquired by the British Motor Corporation Ltd. In 1968 BMC was merged with Leyland Motors to form British Leyland.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/00-app1/motorman.htm (4423 words)

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		The company's founder J?rgen Skafte Rasmussen began to experiment with a steam-driven motor vehicle in 1916, registering DKW as a trademark.
		The company emblem, with four interlinked rings, symbolized the inseparable unity of the four founder-companies.
		The company's leading figures consequently moved to Bavaria, where a new company was founded in Ingolstadt in 1949 under the name of Auto Union GmbH, to uphold the motor vehicle tradition of the company with the four-ring emblem.
	www.cartype.com /page.cfm?id=149&alph=ALL&dec=ALL (1093 words)

	Promotex Online - The Other Daimler
		The Daimler Motor Company of the United Kingdom and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (which means the same thing in German) both take their name from Gottlieb Daimler, one of the founders of what is today DaimlerChrysler, and both started with the same engine, but other than that, the two companies have no connection.
		Within two years, he announced plans to form Daimler Motor Company Limited with the intention to begin building automobiles (incidentally, Simms is often credited with the first use of the terms "motor car" and "petrol") and formed the Motor Car Club.
		Lanchester was another company well-known for its engineering and the purchase gave Daimler a small car line that became very important during the years of the Great Depression.
	www.promotex.ca /articles/cawthon/2005/2005-09-15_article.html (1787 words)

	Lanchester Car Insurance Quotes
		The Lanchester Car Company with Fred Lanchester in 1893 when he built his first engine and fitted it to a flat bottomed boat built and designed by his brothers.
		Lanchester’s first car was built in 1895 and was certainly the first petrol driven four-wheeled car ever made in Britain.
		By 1931 Lanchester were in financial trouble and was taken over by BSA Manufacturing finally finished in 1956 with the last car called the Sprite.
	www.quotezone.co.uk /lanchester.htm (281 words)

	The Panorama of British Life: Technology, Business, Internet, News, Milestones, Life, People, Upcoming Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For many companies in the UK mergers and take-overs became the only route to survival and the result was a metamorphosis from relatively small, individually run businesses, to large combines.
		It is now part of the Ford Motor Company, but has retained its individual identity and design and engineering flair, a fact demonstrated by the latest XK8 Coupe and Convertible which have enormous export potential.
		The British motor industry has been through some difficult periods but today its companies, with a direct link back to the earliest days of automotive production, can justly claim to produce vehicles which in terms of guality and technology are among the best in the world.
	www.britannia.com /panorama/motoring.html (856 words)

	Jaguar Cars, Ltd. -- Company History
		Although the company was purchased by Ford Motor Company in 1990 for $2.6 billion, sales remain far lower than those posted by competitors like Mercedes Benz and Rolls Royce.
		Soon the company was garnering a reputation for its sidecars, which were used during motorcycling competitions.
		Unrelated to the famous German car company Daimler-Benz, the British firm was an old and distinguished manufacturer of automobiles, bus and coach chassis, and armored vehicles for the military.
	www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/Jaguar-Cars-Ltd-Company-History.html (2429 words)

	The Lanchester Motor Company Ltd - 1933 invoices
		Lanchester is just one of many old British marques that have long since disappeared into the history of motor-car manufacture.
		The pieces of paper on this page date to 1933, and are invoices once issued by the Lanchester Motor Company Limited to its customers, in this case Balgores Motors, of Gidea Park in Essex.
		The final sheet of paper I have, was issued following receipt of the full invoice amount (including discount) that came to one pound, seven shillings and nine pence.
	www.oldclassiccar.co.uk /lanchestermotorco.htm (111 words)

	University of Southampton Libraries Special Collections - MS 107 Papers relating to F.W.Lanchester
		Frederick William Lanchester (1868-1946), FRS, LLD, was educated privately, at the Hartley Institution, Southampton, and, on gaining a national scholarship, at the Royal College of Science.
		Lanchester was consultant and technical adviser to Daimler and BSA Companies, 1910-30; consulting engineer to Breadmore (diesel department), 1928-30; and member of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1909-20.
		Copies of Lanchester's account of his time at the Hartley Institution; a typescript account of his life; patent specifications; photographs of inventions, cars, and one of himself; drawings; papers and books; six medals; and centenary lectures, 1968.
	www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk /guide/MS107.shtml (169 words)

	History of the Automobile
		The atomizer was the carburetion device used on the first motor car equipped with a gasoline engine, built by Siegfried Marcus in 1875.
		Lanchester, a British automotive pioneer, built motor cars that used wick carburetors.
		The rotary-brush atomizer used by Marcus was an integrated fuel reservoir and feed unit.
	www.motorera.com /history/hist04.htm (1016 words)

	CyberSnippets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The demand for motor cars was not great and Gottlieb Daimler was more interested in the engines themselves as a means of propulsion for all forms of transport and so it was not until 1886 that a purpose built chassis was fitted with a Daimler engine.
		Simms changed the name of his company to the Diamler Motor Syndicate in 1893 and although the majority of the engines were sold for marine use Simms was already very involved with the new Automobile industry.
		The company was amalgamated with BSA (the Birmingham Small Arms Co.) in 1910 and this was reported in the Financial Times as "-- one of the most important ever effected in the motor industry".
	www.motorsnippets.com /cars/daimler (3395 words)

	Men who sparked the ignition
		Though we are celebrating the centenary of the British motor industry and its oldest company Daimler, it would have been difficult for the most patriotic of automobilists to have purchased a British-built car during 1896.
		Similarly, when young Frederick Bremer of Walthamstow completed his tiny motor car in 1894, he only ran it after dark to avoid any trouble with the law, even though his original aim bad been to eliminate the tiresome pedalling that took the enjoyment out of cycling as far as he was concerned.
		Other early ventures also failed to achieve success: the Britannia Company of Colchester was a successful maker of lathes and engineering equipment and their 1896 catalogue listed a range of "Facile" motor carriages powered by their single-cylinder "heavy oil" engine, though it seems that only electric carriages and bathchairs were actually made.
	www.brooklands.org.uk /Montagu/MONT7.HTM (1454 words)

	At the Bremen Exhibition in 1888, or 1890, Gottlicb
		In 1893 Simms registered the Daimler Motor Syndicate Ltd. Several important and far reaching changes were in the early days effected in relation to the structure and control of the several companies which successively acquired the patents.
		During the post-vintage years numerous models were produced bearing the name of Daimler or Lanchester and to a lesser extent B.S.A. Up to 1939 and for a short while after the second World War, the greatest coach-builders in the country collaborated with the Company, each producing and adding something distinctive and original to the coachwork.
		The last LANCHESTER car produced was in 1956 but the name, with that of DAIMLER, lives on and so do many of these cars giving pride and joy to their owners.
	www.bransbury.com /dloctxt.htm (661 words)

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		He also had an interest in flight and experimented with the theory of flight in 1892, but was persuaded not to publish, as his theories would ruin his reputation as an engineer, even though the first plane flight would occur for real, 20 years later in America.
		Lanchester's had a reputation for reliability and innovation and a range of two, four and six-cylinder models were produced prior to The Great War of 1914-18, including Lanchester's only sports car.
		After the BSA Group takeover in 1933 the company's products began to lose their position as components were shared with Daimler and BSA.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /british_marque/profiles/Lanchester.htm (440 words)

	British Motor Manufacturers 1894-1960, Lanchester
		He designed and built a 3 hp single-cylinder engine, but due to restrictions on road use, he and his brothers built a motor launch to use as a test bed for the engine.
		After the BSA/Daimler Group takeover in 1933 the company's products began to lose their position as components were shared with Daimler and BSA.
		After the Second World War the company was unable to produce large models and production was concentrated on the 10 hp model originally intended to be announced in 1940.
	www.britishmm.co.uk /history.asp?id=540 (435 words)

	Custom2 Page
		During the siege of Antwerp, from mid August to the first week of October 1914, numerous motor vehicles were stripped and rebuilt with armore plating, and machine guns mounted on them, even some were fitted with rotating cupolas.
		Although the Minerva Motor Company re-built and produced most of these new armored vehicles, and was a household name when it came to making armored cars, there were other auto makers who produced armored cars during WWI.
		The three companies in Belgium were, Minerva, Sava (Societe Anversois pour la fabrications de Voitures Automobiles), and Morse.
	minervamotor-car.50megs.com /custom2.html (460 words)

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		The company was fortunate to possess an exceptionally talented young engineer, William Henry Collier, who accepted the challenge and by 1906 had a prototype ready for inspection.
		At the same time the company moved its operations to a larger facility in Nashville, whose finance and transport infrastructure could better support a growing company.
		The company fell as fast as it had risen and 1914 was its last year.
	www.cartype.com /page.cfm?id=1005&alph=ALL&dec=ALL (606 words)

	The Motor Industry in Birmingham and the West Midlands
		Coventry was a major producer of cycles and also moved on to produce motor bikes and cars.
		Such was the extent of the motor manufacturing industry in the West Midlands.
		During the first world war railway carriage companies produced trucks and aeroplanes with the expertise gained from the motor trade.
	www.birminghamuk.com /motorindustry.htm (505 words)

	THE MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY IN BIRMIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Early motor cars were referred to as horseless carriages and it was a very apt description for in some instances the original horse coach builder or carriage builders built the bodies.
		The Northampton company of Mulliners, who were established in Gas Street in 1885, having taken over the business of William Findlater, being a prime example of horse coach builders who diversified to the building of motor car bodies.
		On the 30th November 1899 the Lanchester Engine Company was formed and the Lanchester brothers purchased a factory which had previously been part of the National Arms and Ammunition Works in Montgomery Street.
	www.madeinbirmingham.org /car.htm (1165 words)

	The Coventry and Warwickshire Network - Motor Industry, Coventry: Daimler
		The Daimler Motor Syndicate was founded in Britain in 1893 by FR Simms, a young mechanical engineer and friend of Gottlieb Daimler.
		In 1904 the Daimler Motor Company Ltd was formed.
		However the 1950's the company was in serious financial trouble.
	www.coventry.org.uk /heritage2/industry/motor/daimler1.htm (228 words)

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