The Armadale was an
English automobile manufactured from 1906 to 1907 by Armadale Motors Ltd,
Northwood, Middlesex
Northwood is an affluent area in northwest London, England. It is located within the London Borough of Hillingdon on the border with Hertfordshire and from Charing Cross. Northwood was part of the ancient parish of Ruislip, Middlesex and has f ...
, then Northwood Motor & Engineering Works, also of Northwood.
Models
Three wheel
Initially called the Toboggan, the Armadale Tri-car, so-called the "perfect little three-wheeler" featured infinitely variable
friction drive and a pressed steel
chassis
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, unusual in a
tricar. It used either a one-cylinder
Aster
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or a 2-cylinder
Fafnir engine.
Four wheel
In 1906, the company listed a conventional 4-wheeler with a 16 hp 4-cylinder engine.
Tourist Trophy Race of 1906
An Armadale car, owned or driven by A.C. Godwin Smith, was entered in the
Tourist Trophy Race in the
Isle of Man on 27 September 1906 but it did not start.
See also
*
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References
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