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When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model
  • When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

Joe Young from Tasmania, Australia got in touch with us some time ago regarding his British-built cycle car, made by GWK (Grice Wood & Keiller) in 1913. He wrote: “There are only eight existing in the world and the two remaining in Australia were together in May last year. The one I brought back to Tasmania came from New Castel NSW.” What’s more: he sent over a stack of photographs of his car in a variety of states – from the 1960s to last year when reunited with its sister model. You can see them below in a more or less chronological order.

The GWK is an interesting car of which it may be surprising to learn that so few have survived. Described as ‘An Edwardian in miniature’ the GWK uses the twin-cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine which is set transversely in the pressed steel chassis to drive the wheels through a friction wheel and a bevel gear differential. Of the three men, Grice was the inventor, or so it seems, with some innovative ideas. From the Georgano: “GWK moved to new premises in Maidenhead in 1924 and the business was run by Grice during the war, while his partners were in the Army. He had already secured the Maidenhead factory, known as Cordwallis Works, in 1913 to make a rotary engine in conjunction with a Belgian marble merchant, MA van Roggen, under the name G & VR Ltd. The link with Van Roggen later resulted in plans to build the Imperia in the Cordwallis Works, though this never came about.”

A lovely side note about the Cordwallis Works mentions that this was also nicknamed the Jam Factory, because it became the home of St. Martins jams and marmalades while it also housed the Burney and Marendaz!

Words by Jeroen Booij. Pictures by Joe Young.

 

Gepubliceerd:
donderdag mei 30th, 2019

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