View attachment 74906The badge on the left of these two was fitted during the 1930s, whilst the one on the right is the illuminated one with which I am more familiar.The company started as 'The Wolsely And Motor Company Limited'. Adderly Park, Birmingham, this as we all know became 'British Leyland U K Limited', Cowley, Oxford.
Herbert Austin came from Australia where he worked for 'Wolesley Sheep Shearing Company' and he started working at 'Wolesley Machine Tool Company' in 1893. Car production at the factory began in 1900, The company was taken over by Vickers in 1912 and over the years several mergers took place with Riley, Morris and M.G. after which it was re-named the 'Nuffield Group'.
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Waverley and Weigel were two separate companies both in London, Waverley 1910-1931. Weigel even shorter, 1907-1910.
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Whitlock Aster was a short lived one 1904-1906 but the original Whitlock made in Cricklewood London was active 1906- 1933.