The Dewcar was a British four-wheeled cyclecar

Cyclecar

Cyclecars were small, generally inexpensive cars manufactured mainly between 1910 and the late 1920s.-General description:Cyclecars were propelled by single cylinder, V-twin or more rarely four cylinder engines, often air cooled. Sometimes these had been originally used in motorcycles and other...

 made from 1913 to 1914 by D.E.W. Engineering Co Ltd of Eynsford

Eynsford

Eynsford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located on the River Darent, south of Dartford in Kent.-The village:...

, Kent. The car was designed by Harold E. Dew and was developed through a series of one-offs starting in 1910.

The first production models were made in 1913 with single-seat bodies and used a single-cylinder Precision engine with a tax horsepower of 4.5. A two-seater was added shortly afterwards with a larger twin-cylinder engine with either air- or water-cooling. The single seater cost £75 and the two-seater £95 or £115 with the water-cooled option.

D.Ultra car

Harold Dew left the company in February 1914 and set up a new concern in Clapham, London registered as D. U. Manufacturing making a car called the D. Ultra. This was available as either a two-seat car or delivery van and used a Chater-Lea

Chater-Lea

Chater-Lea was a British bicycle, car and motor cycle maker with a nine-storey factory in Banner Street in the City of London and, from 1928, premises at Letchworth, Hertfordshire. It was founded by William Chater-Lea in 1900 to make bicycle components. It made cars between 1907 and 1922 and...

 8 hp V-twin engine with 4-speed friction transmission. A four-seat model was added for 1915.

Production seems to have stopped in 1916.

Plans for the car were published in the Model Engineer magazine

Model Engineer magazine

Model Engineer Magazine was first published to support the hobby of model engineering in 1898 by Percival Marshall, who was to remain its editor for over 50 years. It has been published by My Hobby Store since 2008. The magazine addressed the emergence of a new hobby — the construction of models ...

in 1919.

Victor car

After Harold Dew left D.E.W. Engineering production of the original car was taken up by Victor Motors, still in Eynford and possibly the same company re-registered under a new name. A 965 cc precision V-twin engine was used. In 1915 manufacture moved to Tyler Apparatus of Ealing, London with a larger 1100 cc 4-cylinder engine. The last ones were made in 1920