Wigan-Barlow
Encyclopedia
The Wigan-Barlow was an English
automobile
manufactured from 1922 until 1923. With a factory at Lowther Street and David Road Coventry
, it was an unsuccessful assembled light car
with 1368 cc Coventry Simplex or 1496 cc Meadows
engine
s.
A sports model, the 11/40 with 1795 cc Meadows engine and polished aluminium bodywork was announced in 1922 but came too late to save the company from receivership in October 1922
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
automobile
Automobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
manufactured from 1922 until 1923. With a factory at Lowther Street and David Road Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
, it was an unsuccessful assembled light car
Light car
A Light Car is a term used in Great Britain since the early part of the 20th Century for an automobile less than 1.5 litres engine capacity. In modern car classification this term would be roughly equivalent to a subcompact car...
with 1368 cc Coventry Simplex or 1496 cc Meadows
Henry Meadows
Henry Meadows of Wolverhampton, England were major suppliers of engines and transmissions, to the smaller companies in the British motor industry...
engine
Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert energy into useful mechanical motion. Heat engines, including internal combustion engines and external combustion engines burn a fuel to create heat which is then used to create motion...
s.
A sports model, the 11/40 with 1795 cc Meadows engine and polished aluminium bodywork was announced in 1922 but came too late to save the company from receivership in October 1922