WEST MIDLANDS BRANCH: A visit to the Frederick Lanchester Interactive Archive

摘要

Frederick Lanchester is one of those over-looked pioneers, possibly because his car manufacturing business got 'absorbed' a long time ago and a lot of his time was spent as a consultant. Lanchester cars had always been at the high quality end of the market and therefore in the more select lower volume end of the motor industry and so there were never very large numbers around. He never seemed to get his name on the front line. He is credited with many developments including the building of the first wholly British made four wheeled car, many developments in aeronautics including a classic text book on design, but what a wide history he has.