Ashton-Evans
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The Ashton-Evans was an English
car manufactured in Birmingham
from 1919 to 1928 by an engineering company who also made railway locomotives and aircraft parts. The cars were designed by E Bailey who had been with Sunbeam and T Bedford.
The first car of the marque had a rear track of only 8 inches (203.2 mm) to avoid the need for a differential, but a normal rear axle was used from 1920 on when the car name changed to Ashton before reverting to Ashton-Evans in 1921. Most cars featured 1½-litre, 4 cylinder Coventry Simplex engines and three speed constant-mesh gearboxes with selection made by dog clutches. Some of the early cars might have had two cylinder engines. Two and four seat open bodies were available.
Car production was temporarily suspended in 1927 but never resumed.
As many as 250 might have been made.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
car manufactured in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
from 1919 to 1928 by an engineering company who also made railway locomotives and aircraft parts. The cars were designed by E Bailey who had been with Sunbeam and T Bedford.
The first car of the marque had a rear track of only 8 inches (203.2 mm) to avoid the need for a differential, but a normal rear axle was used from 1920 on when the car name changed to Ashton before reverting to Ashton-Evans in 1921. Most cars featured 1½-litre, 4 cylinder Coventry Simplex engines and three speed constant-mesh gearboxes with selection made by dog clutches. Some of the early cars might have had two cylinder engines. Two and four seat open bodies were available.
Car production was temporarily suspended in 1927 but never resumed.
As many as 250 might have been made.
