Motor Omnibus and Waggon Co
From Graces Guide
1905 The Company was incorporated as the Motor Omnibus and Waggon Co, company number 83,846.[1] Company does no business under this name. The company was registered by the Motor Car Emporium.[2]
A prototype electrobus was supplied by the Motor Car Emporium of Holland Park. It had a 14 hp electric motor made by Thomson Houston at the company’s Paris works. The battery for this prototype was supplied by the X Accumulator Company.[3]
1907. Name changed to Electric Van Wagon and Omnibus Co. Dr Edward Lehwess and Captain Edward Locock become directors. Lehwess draws £420 in expenses just to change the company name.[4]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Investors’ Guardian, 18 March 1905, p. 273. Companies House still has a file for the company in its archives, but it has been weeded to the point of irrelevance
- ↑ Automotor Journal, 7 December 1907, p. 1781
- ↑ Motor Traction, 25 April 1906, pp. 363-64; Commercial Motor, 26 April 1906, p. 162.
- ↑ Automotor Journal, 7 December 1907, p. 1781