Silly Walks from Coventry

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They are more like a pair of odd shaped roller skates than cars. More of this either from John Cleese or in "Coventry's Motorcar Heritage" reviewed by Michael E Ware: Coventry has been at the heart of the British car industry from the very beginning. Damien Kimberley has produced a deeply researched book listing every car manufacturer that operated or proposed to operate in that City. He has found well over 100, although in many cases the author could not find that they actually made a car or even a prototype. He admits he does not include all of the more recent makes, but concentrates on the earlier years - it makes fascinating reading. The larger firms whose histories are well known get covered but only briefly. I found many makes that I had never heard of, like the Viking. And there are cycle-cars galore! I was fascinated by the Condor, made in 1912 and pictured above, described by the author as: “Unusually, it had two wheels on one side of the open body and a third wheel on the other side like an triangle, with the 4hp Condor engine situated between them.” Continue at ´Read More´

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