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The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry, England from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture.
The Suzuki Swift (Japanese: スズキ・スイフト, Suzuki Suifuto) is a supermini car produced by Suzuki. The vehicle is classified as a B-segment marque in the European single market, a segment referred to as a supermini in the British Isles.
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Well from the Isle of Wight actually and unlike the poem by Robert Browning, it was September rather than April, but apart from that…….. Anyway, it was in September 2007 that I visited the Brading Experience on the Isle of Wight. Part of “the experience” was The World of Wheels, a small transport museum. One of the exhibits was a beautifully restor...
The Swift Motor Company began life as the Coventry Sewing Machine Company, which was founded by James Starley and Josiah Turner in King Street, Cheylesmore, Coventry in 1859. The original aim of the company was to import and market American sewing machines. However, it wasn’t long before they changed the name of the business to The Coventry Machini...
After a few hiccups with their early models, Swift cars became known for their reliability. However as the 1920s progressed, their hand-built cars became less and less competitive when compared with the mass production models of Austin, Ford, Morris etc. That coupled with the great depression following the Wall Street crash of 1929 lead to Swift cl...
The buildings date from the birth of the motor vehicle industry in Coventry. In fact a motor tricycle produced at the works was the only British built vehicle entered in the first London to Brighton run in November 1896, so it can rightly claim to be the oldest surviving motor vehicle factory in the city. The offices for the Quinton Works were buil...
Dec 12, 2020 · The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry, England from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture. The cars ranged from a single-cylinder car in 1900 using an MMC engine, through a Swift-engined.
The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry, England from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture.
Feb 7, 2024 · The Suzuki Swift was originally marketed in Japan and sold as the Cultus / SA310 until early 1985 when the Swift name was then used for Europe, and the model launched in the UK. In Japan, the Swift name only became used for its domestic market in the late 1990s.
The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry, England from 1900 to 1931. Originating as a sewing machine and cycle company Swift made their first single cylinder car in 1900 using an MMC engine. It had an unusual transmission system involving an unsprung two ratio reart axle.
