- Accles-Turrell
The Accles-Turrell was an English
automobile built between 1899 and 1901 inPerry Bar ,Birmingham , England and from 1901 to 1902 inAshton under Lyne .The company began in 1899 when the British pioneer motorist
Charles McRobie Turrell who had helped organise the 1896 London-BrightonEmancipation Run , joined Accles Ltd a Birmingham engineering company. The car was a 3 hp two-seater light carriage equipped with a single cylinder engine of Accles manufacture and a body by Arthur Mulliner of Northampton. The engine drove the rear wheels by belt to the 3 speed gearbox and chain to the wheels. The top speed was claimed to be 20 mph (33 km/h).In 1901 a larger four seat 10/15 hp car was made and the rights to this "vibrationless, very simple, quiet and efficient" "New Turrell" car were acquired by
Pollock Ltd. ofAshton-under-Lyne . The car had a flat twin 10/15 hp engine under the front seat driving the rear wheels through a two speed constant mesh gearbox. The car was later made by the Autocar Construction Company and sold as the Hermes.Accles and Pollock soon joined forces to become the tube-making company
Accles & Pollock . The Accles & Pollock tube brand is currently owned byTyco .
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