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Solex

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December 1911. Advert in French.
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Advertising plaque.
Photographed in Uruguay in 2010.
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Exhibit at the Dover Transport Museum.

of Solex Works, 223-231 Marylebone Road, London NW1 was the British arm of a French manufacturer (S.A.Solex of Seine) of carburettors and the powered bicycle Velo-Solex.

of 115 Southwark Street, London

1906 a French company of this name was created by Maurice Goudard and Marcel Mennesson making centrifugal radiators, then carburettors and starters later.

1910 The Solex trademark was registered covering accessories for motor vehicles and motorcycles, such as spark plugs, carburettors, radiators.

1910 S. Wolf and Co had the English agency for the new Solex Duplex-Jet Carburetter[1] and for the Solex circular radiator[2]

1914 The latest variant of the Solex duplex-jet carburetter was manufactured by S. Wolf and Co., Ltd.[3]

1924 S. Wolf were making Solex carburettors at Southwark Street (see advert)

1926 Solex (Licencees) Ltd were at the Southwark Street premises, after which the company became Solex Ltd

1933 Solex Ltd of Solex Works, Marylebone Road, advertised their self-starting carburetter[4]

1935 Solex, Ltd., 223-231, Marylebone Road, London offered a new Governor Thermostarter carburetter.[5]

1937 The French company had developed a Pneumatic Measuring System.

1944 Patent on "Improvements in and relating to measuring gauges" by Solex Ltd, a British Company, Louis Eugene Wattebot, a French citizen living in London, and Jeffery Warriner Taylor.

1944 Patent on "Improvements in and relating to carburettors for internal combustion engines" by Solex Ltd, a British Company, and Louis Prat, a French citizen living in London.

1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Carburettors. [6]

1964 Zenith Carburettor and Solex Ltd agreed to merge their carburettor manufacturing activities which would be concentrated at Zenith. The parent company would be Fiava Ltd. Zenith would become the controlling shareholder in Engineering Research and Application and Stanmore Engineering (die casters)[7]

1964 Liquidator appointed[8]

Solex became the name of the holding company.

1979 Matra took a controlling interest in the shares[9]

1981 After financial problems the name of Zenith Carburetter Co was changed to Solex (UK)[10]

1985 Financial results continued to be reported to this time.

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Sources of Information

  1. Commerial Motor 28th July 1910
  2. Commercial Motors 1 Dec 1910
  3. Commercial Motors 9 April 1914
  4. The Times Sept. 26, 1933
  5. Commercial Motors 18th January 1935
  6. 1963 Motor Show
  7. The Times Dec. 2, 1964
  8. The London Gazette 1 January 1965
  9. The Times Dec. 18, 1979
  10. The Times Oct. 31, 1981