Talk:Lanchester Motor Company

The price was right
How much did BSA pay? Trekphiler 22:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

First British 4-wheeled car
Also need to cite refs for this, one way or the other. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:30, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Was this Lanchester?
 * If not, who was it?
 * If not, why is it so frequently claimed to be Lanchester?


 * Georgano in "Vintage Cars 1886-1930" originally published in 1983 devotes a section to Early British Cars. Ignoring steam power he gives the first one as the 1888 single seater made by Edward Butler but this was a three wheeler. It was driven on the road in February 1889. The first four wheeler is given as the 1894 car made by Frederick William Brenner in Walthamstow. This car still exists and is on display (I think) in Walthamstow museum. Georgano doesn't mention the Santler from Malvern in this book but in the Beaulieu Encyclopedia, which he edited, it is dated as 1894. In the same work the Lanchester cars first run is given as March 1896. All of these were one offs. The first production car in Britain was the Daimler, the first ones being sold in 1897.  No Lanchesters reached the public until 1900. By that time Arnold in Kent (1896), Belsize in Manchester (1897) and Star in Wolverhampton (1898) and probably others had all started manufacture. As to why Lanchester gets the credit, I can't answer. Malcolma (talk) 09:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

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Brand ownership
As with the Jaguar Cars article, I've tried to align the brand ownership content (prose and infobox) with what I have been able to glean from the UK trademark registry. The records are very complete for Lanchester, so some interpolation based on what I found out about Jaguar might have crept in, but that website is surely the most reliable source available for this information. Any ideas about how this information might be improved upon and made more accurate or reflective of the reality would be appreciated. -- DeFacto (talk). 23:24, 26 January 2018 (UTC)