Earlier this week in the PreWarCar.com magazine...
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The formative years of the VSCC were heady days indeed, defined, it would seem, by dashing young men with bristling military moustaches developing Spartan specials to be driven hell-for-leather, long before precious notions of investment value were ever conceived.
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The beginning of Straker Squire goes back to 1896 when Sydney Straker commenced building steam lorries in Bristol, UK. The company went through several changes, and in about 1905 Squire, a wealthy London socialite joined Straker and financed the import of French CSB chassis, which Straker Squire sold until CSB closed in 1908.
By 1902/1903 makers building motorcycles often using proprietary engines or kits such as the Minerva, offered lady's models. An easy route as they either employed available self-manufactured sturdy lady's cycles or built stronger frames to the same design then adapted or made appropriate smaller fuel tanks and/or accumulators and trembler coil boxes to suit.
After this failed six-wheeler-adventure the company sold premium four-wheeler-cars (courageously advertised: “Not Only The Best at the Price But the Best at Any Price”) until bankruptcy in 1917; production-numbers overall are estimated between 12.000 and 23.000 cars. In York, the Pullman-building still exists.
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zondag maart 31st, 2019