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Dennis Brothers Speed King bicycle in Guildford Museum The first purpose-built motor vehicle factory in Britain in Onslow Street, Guildford. Dennis Brothers was founded in 1895 by brothers John Cawsey Dennis (1871–1939) and (Herbert) Raymond Dennis (1878–1939) who made Speed King bicycles. [1]
They made their first motor vehicle in 1898, a De Dion-powered tricycle which they exhibited at the National Cycle Show, which they offered for sale, along with a quadricycle. [1] In 1899, the first Dennis car proper appeared, the Speed-King Light Doctors' Car, [ 1 ] a four-wheeler with a 3.5hp a rear-mounted de Dion engine and three-speed ...
In 1904 the building was extended and Dennis started making commercial vehicles as well as cars, initially vans and buses. By 1905 more space was needed and a second factory was established on a site at Woodbridge Hill, about a mile north of the town. 1908 saw the first Dennis fire engine leave the Bridge Street works.
In the late 1960s, Chrysler endeavoured to market the Rootes cars in the US. These efforts proved unsuccessful. Marketing in the US was impeded by an inability to offer cars for sale during part of 1968, as the Rootes cars could not comply with exhaust emission requirements. The Hillman Avenger was produced between 1970 and 1981
Guildford and Freiburg im Breisgau coats of arms mosaic installed on the floor of the building. During the second half of the 16th century and into the 17th century, corn merchants conducted their trade on the ground floor off the Guildhall. This arrangement ceased in 1626, when trading moved to a space covered by a wooden canopy on the south ...
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