Marshall and Co (of Clayton)
of Belsize Works, Clayton, Manchester
See also Belsize Motors
1895 Formerly Thomas Edward Marshall and Co
1896 The company was founded as Marshall and Co. James Hoyle Smith was involved from an early stage.
1897 Produced its first cars - these were called Marshalls and were very similar to the French Hurtu, itself a Benz replica.
Note: The business evidently took over the Belsize Works formally occupied by the Manchester Cycle Manufacturing Co, but this could not have happened before July 1898, when the factory was advertised for sale.
Agencies were established in London and Dublin and the car gained a Gold Medal for efficiency at the 1899 London exhibition.
1900 Partnership change. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Makeague, and Edward Francis Hunter, and John James Mann, carrying on business as Workers and Vendors of Articles Manufactured under Patent Rights and Agents for the Sale of Machinery and Patented Articles, at No. 23, Boulevard des Italiennes, in the city of Paris, and also as Pattern Makers and Engineers at Belsize Works, Clayton, Manchester, under the style or firm of Marshall and Co., has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the eleventh day of December, 1899. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said John Makeague and Edward Francis Hunter who will continue to carry on the said businesses under the style or firm aforesaid...'[1]
1900 Showed motorcar and makes of carriages of all types. Paris Exhibition [2]
1901 A new more modern four seat model appeared in 1901 with twin cylinder engine made by Buchet and was the first to carry the Belsize name as the "Marshall Belsize", taking its name from their Belsize works where they had built bicycles
1901 Belsize Motors was formed in Clayton, Manchester.
1903 The company name was changed to Belsize Motors and Engineering.
1906 This changed again to Belsize Motors Ltd. The company was registered on 20 April, to acquire the undertaking of the Belsize Motor and Engineering Co. [3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:12 June 1900 Issue:27201 Page:3712
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/09/14 p253
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908