sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
I don't think that the Perry Company's motor manufacturing activities have featured on here before so here goes..... 
In September 1912 the Perry Company (famed for pen nibs and chain & cycle accesories) formed the Perry Motor Company Limited with a capital of 60,000 pounds. The brains behind it was the 20 year old designer Cecil T. Bayliss.
The first model, produced in 1913, was a two-cylinder 8 hp light car. In the same year they acquired the factory at Tyseley, which eventually became Perry Chain Company and was swallowed up in the 1960s by the Manchester-based Renold Chain Company.
In both 1914 and 1915 the Company made a loss despite the introduction of a four-cylinder 11.9 hp model. Production ended in 1916 with less than 700 of each model being made. Spare parts were sold to R.H. Collier, who also acquired one or two other early makes such as Swift, Crouch, and Clyno. Beans acquired the the design rights of the 11.9 hp model and used it as a basis for their first cars.
I'm afraid the pictures aren't too clear as they were kindly photocopied from a book in their possession by the Institute for the Motor Industry. However, I wonder if any of you clever people out there can name any of the buildings in the pictures.
Finally, there are, as far as I have been able to ascertain, just three cars still in existence - one in England, one in India, and one in New Zealand. I've no idea of the locations other than that the English one is NOT in the Montagu Motor Museum at Beaulieu!
I heard some years ago that one of these vehicles was originally in Peru, of all places - they are certainly spread far and wide.
Maurice
In September 1912 the Perry Company (famed for pen nibs and chain & cycle accesories) formed the Perry Motor Company Limited with a capital of 60,000 pounds. The brains behind it was the 20 year old designer Cecil T. Bayliss.
The first model, produced in 1913, was a two-cylinder 8 hp light car. In the same year they acquired the factory at Tyseley, which eventually became Perry Chain Company and was swallowed up in the 1960s by the Manchester-based Renold Chain Company.
In both 1914 and 1915 the Company made a loss despite the introduction of a four-cylinder 11.9 hp model. Production ended in 1916 with less than 700 of each model being made. Spare parts were sold to R.H. Collier, who also acquired one or two other early makes such as Swift, Crouch, and Clyno. Beans acquired the the design rights of the 11.9 hp model and used it as a basis for their first cars.
I'm afraid the pictures aren't too clear as they were kindly photocopied from a book in their possession by the Institute for the Motor Industry. However, I wonder if any of you clever people out there can name any of the buildings in the pictures.
Finally, there are, as far as I have been able to ascertain, just three cars still in existence - one in England, one in India, and one in New Zealand. I've no idea of the locations other than that the English one is NOT in the Montagu Motor Museum at Beaulieu!
I heard some years ago that one of these vehicles was originally in Peru, of all places - they are certainly spread far and wide.
Maurice
