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The Thornycroft was started in 1862 when John Isaac Thornycroft built a steam engine. Two years later he formed the steam carriage and Wagon Company, with plants in Chiswick, London. But stop the project, because the over-zealous legislation for road vehicles and took Thornycroft shipbuilding, even in Chiswick.
The company began working road vehicle in 1895, continuing the shipbuilding and marine engineering business and built his first steam engineworks Chiswick. The Thornycroft Steam Wagon Company of Chiswick turn the heat up trucks and vans for the production, and a new factory was established in Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1898, to meet demand.
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In 1901 the War Department organized a competition and moved with the possibility of jobs and a £ 500 prize for the winning team car, several companies, including Thornycroft participated in the competition held at Aldershot for the best type of vehicle used for military purposes. The winner was Thornycroft'sSteam truck, which was followed in second place by a Foden truck - also steam driven.
The first vehicle was Thornycroft in 1902, introduced a commercial vehicle with a capacity of 4 tons. The company was building cars in 1912 to concentrate, was for half a century later, the successful development of its commercial vehicles, a field in which world-class Thornycroft and a major employer in Basingstoke.
In 1909 the authorities have launched a competition for the best IC engineTractor. Many leading companies joined the competition, which lasted several days, mostly in difficult terrain, and a £ 750 prize went to the number of vehicles wanting Thornycroft Thornycroft assigned 833 - the only vehicle that was worth a prize!
After World War 1, the production of four Thornycroft demonstrated pre 1919 models, including 2 tons of BT, 3-ton-X, 4 tons and 5 tons 40hp 40hp J Q-type models. Later this species from 6-ton W 40hp, Thornycroft is offlinefirst postwar truck design.
Thornycroft had become a great company, whose range of products including motor vehicles for goods and passenger transport and municipal services, cargo and passenger vessels up to 450ft in length, draft vessels, oil tankers, destroyers, ferries, tugs, yachts, marine and stationary engines, motor boats capable of more, up to 40 knots (74kph), boiler tubes of sea water, etc. works for its local and its London and Basingstoke, Southampton,Thornycroft had more stores and retail outlets at home and abroad.
Thornycroft survived financial troubles in 1930 to maintain its position as a major British manufacturing company, producing a wide range of products.
2. World War II began Sept. 3, 1939, at 11:15 clock, when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced that Britain was at war with Germany. During the six years of conflict, the production capacity of engineering organizations in support ofWar effort. Among the other weapons and engine parts for Thornycroft, complete guns, Exploder for bombs, water balloons launchers and vehicles for military and civilian use, including trucks and armored tracked vehicles, etc., and torpedo rudder.
In 1948 the name of the company to transport (Thornycroft) Ltd in order to avoid confusion with the ferry company Thornycroft changed.
During the years 1960 and 1970 in the popular "Dads Army" TV show,Thornycroft van was used as Jones the butcher's van. The company was known for the provision of fire truck chassis, known to drive multi-axis applications such as airports.
They were taken by AEC, and limited to Associated Commercial Vehicles Ltd. and moved production to the Nubians, Big Ben and Antares. ACV was then Leyland already taken a specialist vehicle unit Scammell, another manufacturer of large trucks.
Thornycroft's Basingstoke factory has been closed1969 and moved to Watford Scamardella special vehicles.
Today the name Thornycroft is used by a manufacturer of marine diesel engines for private and light commercial use. The engines are designed around small engines from Mitsubishi. Although Leyland Thornycroft effectively closed to the functioning of the parent company is now the main suppliers of spare parts for Leyland-built marine diesel engines, which were very popular for many years for use in the barge canal andHouseboats (now a market making increasing use of modern engines Thornycroft).
The history of Thornycroft lorries
