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Angus Sanderson and Co

From Graces Guide
May 1911.
May 1911.
May 1911.
January 1920. Use of Dixon's White

Sir Wm. Angus Sanderson and Co of Newcastle upon Tyne

1850 Maker of axles for Brougham[1]

1901 William Angus was a coach builder, employer, living in Elswick[2]

1907 Coach builders and motor body builders[3]

At some point merged with Sanderson’s Coachbuilders of St Thomas Street, Newcastle upon Tyne[4]

1908 Sir William Angus and Sanderson exhibited coach-built bodies on chassis at the 1908 Motor Show at Olympia[5]

1910 Dealer in Rolls-Royce cars[6]

1912 William Angus died; his son Thomas Knox Angus continued in business as a coach builder[7]

WWI Maker of aeroplanes.

1919 Acquired the National Projectile Factory at Birtley[8]

1919 Announced intention to produce "assembled" Angus-Sanderson cars, with coach building in the ex-aircraft factory and other parts made in other factories, such as the engine which was made by Tylor and Son of Kings Cross[9]

1919 Offered a 3.5 hp motorcycle using a JAP engine but it was expensive[10]

1919-27 Maker of 14 hp cars.

1921 Re-organised as Angus-Sanderson with backing from British Spyker Co and Tylors under the control of S. F. Edge becoming Angus-Sanderson (1921) Ltd

After a further few hundred cars had been completed at Birtley, production was moved to the old Grahame-White aircraft works in Hendon, Middlesex.

The new company was free of the financial worries of the old one and the car was being produced under one roof at Hendon[11]

1922 Angus-Sanderson controlled the "famous firm of engine specialists" J. Tylor and Sons. Head office and works at London Aerodrome, Hendon[12]

1922 Introduction of a 2-seater deluxe with 8hp engine; mechanical design by Mr Ricardo[13]

1927 The last cars, almost certainly assembled from existing stocks of parts, were completed in 1927. It is estimated that approximately 3,000 Angus-Sanderson cars were made, most of them in the firm's early years, of which only a tiny handful survives.



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Sources of Information

  1. National Trust [1]
  2. 1901 census
  3. The Times, Nov 12, 1907
  4. paper on Angus Sanderson & Co published on Ancestry
  5. The Times, Nov 18, 1908
  6. The Times, Oct 31, 1910
  7. National Probate Calendar
  8. The Times, Jul 12, 1919
  9. The Times , May 17, 1919
  10. The Times, Nov 25, 1919
  11. The Times May 16, 1922
  12. The Times, May 30, 1922
  13. The Times, Nov 06, 1922
  • Aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) by J. M. Bruce. Published 1982 ISBN 0-370-30084-x