Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Hay Motor Co

From Graces Guide
Hay steam lorry, November 1905.

of South John Street, Liverpool

1905-06 Steam wagon.[1]. This had some very curious features, principally in the use of a single cylinder engine and ratchet drive to the axle. (Nicolas Cugnot anticipated Hay by well over a century, but wisely used two cylinders!). Only one or two examples of Hay's lorry were made.[2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. Edited by G. N. Georgano
  2. 'The Development of the English Steam Wagon' by Ronald H. Clark, Goose & Son, 1963