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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
of Great Peter Street, Westminster
1897 Company founded by P S Pilcher and W. G. Wilson[1]
1899 Percy Pilcher was killed in one of the firm's experimental gliders.
The company was continued by W G Wilson until in 1904 it was bought by Armstrong Whitworth
1904-6 Cars were made by Armstrong Whitworth
1906. Produced 12-16 h.p. four-cylinder and 18-24 h.p. six-cylinder shaft-drive cars with horizontal engines. [2]
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