Wilson-Pilcher
From Graces Guide
of Great Peter Street, Westminster
1897 Company founded by P S Pilcher and W. G. Wilson[1]
1899 Percy Pilcher was killed in one of the firm's experimental gliders.
In new premises in Westminster Wilson created the Wilson-Pilcher motor car embodying epicyclic gears and some remarkable new features which in later years came to be regarded as the hallmark of good design in motor cars of quality.
The company was continued by W G Wilson until in 1904 it was bought by Armstrong Whitworth
1904 April. Details of their petrol cars.[2][3][4]
1904 July. Details of the change-speed gear.[5]
1904-6 Cars were made by Armstrong Whitworth
1906. Produced 12-16 h.p. four-cylinder and 18-24 h.p. six-cylinder shaft-drive cars with horizontal engines. [6]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Proposal to Inst Civil Engineers 1912
- ↑ Automotor Journal 1904/04/16
- ↑ Automotor Journal 1904/04/23
- ↑ Automotor Journal 1904/04/30
- ↑ The Autocar 1904/07/23
- ↑ The Automobile Vol. III. Edited by Paul N. Hasluck and published by Cassell in 1906.