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1919 Belsize 15 hp Van 12cwt Comments about this vehicle| Author | Message |
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◊ 2007-02-04 11:18 |
the van on the left |
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◊ 2016-02-07 13:59 |
Belsize delivery van - probably 12cwt from 1919, based on the taxicab chassis. Continued in production until Belsize stopped production in about 1929. http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/29th-july-1919/9/-the-12-cwt-belsize-van- This follows the first Belsize on IMCDb a taxi. 1909 Belsize 14-16hp Taxi /vehicle_881527-Belsize-14-16hp-Taxi-1909.html -- Last edit: 2016-02-07 14:01:56 |
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◊ 2022-09-21 20:04 |
Belsize article here, driving a green 1919 15hp Tourer, SV 9024 (originally registered CL 540 (Norwich in 1921 after possibly a couple of years as Belsize's demonstrator on trade plates), and has had several colour schemes over the years. Some info snippets: - Founded in 1896 as Marshall and Company, and located at a former bicycle factory known as Belsize Works in Clayton, Manchester, the first car it produced was based on a French Hertu, essentially a copy of a single-cylinder Benz with belt-and-chain transmission. ... it wasn’t long before a more bespoke car was produced – a shaft-drive 12hp model using a two-cylinder, 1728cc Buchet engine – this time under the Marshall-Belsize moniker. Despite the relative success of the 12hp, by 1903 more investment was needed. What became the Belsize Motor and Engineering Company that year (though ‘Engineering’ was dropped from the name in 1906) raised capital through successive share releases in the ensuing decade. Belsize also – and, it could be argued, partly at the expense of its quality image – diversified into commercial production. Not only did it produce lorries and fire engines in the pre-war period, but taxis, too, and by 1911 it was supplying boom-city Birmingham with more hire cabs than any other manufacturer. - This diversification, along with Belsize’s astute policy of targeting the more profitable middle-class car market, helped sustain it. While Ford, also Manchester-based at the time, was peddling its Model T to the masses, Belsize produced a raft of multi-cylinder models with displacements ranging from 3 to 11.7 litres before the end of the first decade. These were advanced by contemporary standards: the 24/30 it previewed at the 1906 Olympia Show had a shaft-drive, 5880cc ‘six’, with 40hp and 60hp models following two years later. Crossley, the only other credible Manchester-based rival producing cars of a similar calibre, was hot on Belsize’s heels, but its range and output were not yet comparable, and wouldn’t be until the post-war years. Behind Ford, which by 1914 was Britain’s biggest car manufacturer, producing 6000 cars from its Trafford Park plant, Belsize was arguably the country’s second largest marque, employing some 1500 staff and building 3000 vehicles a year by 1913. - The 15hp was Belsize’s only immediate post-war model. They went into receivership in 1923 and had disappeared by 1925. |
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