Croydon Car Maker

[DGR]

Does anyone know if there was ever a car maker in Croydon called Snow? If so, I imagine it will have been in the early 1900s.

[rowanwitch]

only one I can find is Trojan

[Baldric]

http://en.wikipedia.o..._(British_automobile)

[rowanwitch]

The Anti vibrator company?

[Graham-W]

You may find this interesting.
http://www.tiniusolse...sting/CroydonCars.pdf
Bradbury's are listed as the first car manufacturer in 1901. Others followed.

[Baldric]

Graham, links not working for me

[DGR]

I wondered if there was any link to Trojan but I cannot find one and the excellent site "British Motor Manufacturers 1894-1960" which listed all makes of car made in Britain during the period alphabetically seems to have gone down. I do not thik that the the answer will be a component manufacturer, but I might be wrong. I suppose it could be a component manufacturer that once made a car but I must confess I have never heard of one called Snow. A real teaser!

[DGR]

Graham, your link didn't work for me either, and Baldric, your link took me to an entry in Wkipedia relating to the Imperial car - no mention of Snow. Did I miss something? A general internet search for "Snow car" merely brings up thousands of references to snow fall or snow vehicles even if you qualify this by "Croydon". Almost as bad as searching for "Smith"!

[Baldric]

Yeh I know, just says they were there 1904-1905

[DGR]

At least I now know that there was a Snow car manufacturer there in !904-1905. Thank you Baldric.

[Graham-W]

It's a PDF file so takes a while to open. 28 pages to download.

[boxtops]

Bradbury 1901 (see page 4 para1) http://www.tiniusolse...sting/CroydonCars.pdf

[denis567]

It's a pity you cannot get Graham's link to work, it lists about a dozen makes of cars in Croydon, but no mention of Snow

[DGR]

If the link is 28 pages that probably explains why it didn't work for me. Our Broadband speed is appalling slow and I 've found before that files of such size are just too much for it.
Anyway, thanks to you all for your assistance.