The Lester Solus was an English

automobile A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, Car seat, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport private transport#Personal transport, peopl ...

built in Shepherd's Bush, London only in 1913. A single-seat

cyclecar A cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive motorized car manufactured in Europe and the United States between 1910 and the early 1920s. The purpose of cyclecars was to fill a gap in the market between the motorcycle and the c ...

, it ran on an 8 hp

JAP ''Jap'' is an English abbreviation of the word " Japanese". In the United States, some Japanese Americans have come to find the term offensive because of the internment they suffered during World War II. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, ''Jap ...

or Precision

V-twin engine A V-twin engine, also called a V2 engine, is a two-cylinder piston engine where the cylinders are arranged in a V configuration and share a common crankshaft. The V-twin is widely associated with motorcycles, primarily installed longitudinally ...

with

friction drive A friction drive Definition of "friction drive"
in the Merriam-Webster Di ...

and belts to the rear wheels.

References

* Cyclecars Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England Defunct companies based in London Vehicle manufacture in London Cars introduced in 1913 {{brass-auto-stub