The Coventry Motor Company or CMC was a Coventry motor vehicle manufacturer established in early 1896 by H J Lawson's secretary Charles McRobie Turrell (1875–1923)[1] as a subsidiary of Lawson's British Motor Syndicate.[2]
Turrell-Bollée about 1899Coventry Motette in the Coventry Motor Museum
The Coventry Motor Company produced in 1898 the Coventry Motette, a 3½ hp tricar with a single-cylinder engine, a modified version of the Léon Bollée tricar. These cars were also built, under licence, on those premises in the early years by staff of Humber and Company who had been rehoused there after the Humber works was damaged by fire.[2]
The business was also operated from addresses at Parkside and Conduit Yard off Spon Street. A Mrs H De Veulle drove an example from Coventry to London to show that it could be handled by a woman and to show its reliability.
^Lord Montagu and David Burgess-Wise Daimler Century ; Stephens 1995 ISBN1-85260-494-8
^ abcW.B. Stephens (Editor), Motor-Vehicle Manufacture, A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick, 1969, Victoria County History
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