The company was supported by the coal magnate Earl Fitzwilliam and their cars were designed to be the best on the road, they considered Rolls Royce to be their only competition. Production was interrupted by World War 1 and although they resumed production in 1919, few cars were sold and they closed their doors the next year.
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| Richard Hough and Michael Frostick, A History of the World's High Performance Cars, George Allen & Unwin 1967 |
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Sheffield-Simplex and Rolls Royce were from from being the only British cars to use six-cylinder engines at the time; there were many other makes. At random; Napier, Daimler Vauxhall, Wolseley, Standard and a host of others were building them.
You are correct. I shouldn't believe everything I read.
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