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Coventry-Victor

'Coventry-Victor Morton & Weaver, a proprietary engine manufacturer in Hillfields, Coventry, used the name Coventry-Victor as a trademark from 1911.


The company started manufacturing horizontally opposed engines in 1904. Later they supplied engines to many cyclecar makers.

By 1926, the company's engines became old-fashined and the company find a new scope of activity: they launched their own designed three-wheeler car with their own engines. There was an updating in 1933 and car production survived until 1938.

After the World War II, a prototype named Venus never reached poduction.

The company still exists as AN Weaver (Coventry Victor) Ltd.


External links

http://britishmm.co.uk/history.asp?id=255

http://3wheelers.com/covvictor.html

Last updated: 10-14-2005 09:14:16
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