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Swift Quinton Works green plaque

Coventry, Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Swift Quinton Works. Originally the office block of S. & B. Gorton's Cycle Works, built in 1890 (Quinton Cycle Company 1891, New Beeston Cycle Company 1896). Under the motor entrepreneur, Harry J. Lawson, the latter company produced a 11/4 - hp motor tricycle here in August 1896, the only British-bu

ilt entry in the London to Brighton 'Emancipation Run' that November. Along with the Daimler wagonettes assembled at the 'Motor Mills' in 1896, it marks the birth of the British Motor Industry in Cove

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