Sunbeam Motor Car Company | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Motor_Car_Company 00:02:52 1 Ownership 00:03:01 1.1 John Marston 00:06:00 1.1.1 Cyclecar 00:08:01 1.1.2 Motorcar 00:09:56 1.1.3 Thomas Pullinger 00:12:06 1.2 Sunbeam Motor Car Company 00:13:04 1.2.1 Louis Coatalen 00:14:36 1.2.2 First World War 00:16:57 1.2.3 End of an era and sale to Darracq 00:17:43 1.3 S.T.D. Motors 00:20:00 1.4 Closedown and sale of brandname 00:20:24 2 Products 00:20:33 2.1 Production cars 00:26:29 2.2 Commercial vehicles 00:26:39 2.2.1 Buses 00:27:47 2.2.2 Double decker buses 00:28:16 2.2.3 Double decker trolleybuses 00:29:03 2.2.4 Double or single-deck trolleybus 00:29:49 2.3 Sunbeam-Coatalen aero engines 00:34:33 2.4 Grand Prix cars 00:35:49 2.5 World land speed record cars 00:38:49 3 Sunbeam as a badge for other manufacturers 00:39:01 3.1 Rootes Group 00:44:34 3.2 Chrysler Europe 00:47:06 3.3 Factory locations and models produced 00:47:18 3.3.1 Barlby Road Kensington London 00:48:03 3.3.2 Ryton-on-Dunsmore 00:49:07 3.3.2.1 Ryton-on-Dunsmore export-only 00:49:27 3.3.3 Linwood 00:49:57 3.3.4 Stoke 00:50:14 3.3.5 Milan, Italy 00:50:33 4 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7787756094729389 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited was a British motor car manufacturer with its works at Moorfields in Blakenhall, a suburb of Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire, now West Midlands. Its Sunbeam name had been registered by John Marston in 1888 for his bicycle manufacturing business. Sunbeam motor car manufacture began in 1901. The motor business was sold to a newly incorporated Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited in 1905 to separate it from Marston's pedal bicycle business; Sunbeam motorcycles were not made until 1912. In-house designer Coatalen's enthusiasm for motor racing accumulated expertise with engines. Sunbeam manufactured their own aero engines during the First World War and 647 aircraft to the designs of other manufacturers. Engines drew Sunbeam into Grand Prix racing and participation in the achievement of world land speed records. In spite of its well-regarded cars and aero engines, by 1934 a long period of particularly slow sales had brought continuing losses. Sunbeam was unable to repay money borrowed for ten years in 1924 to fund its Grand Prix racing programme, and a receiver was appointed. There was a forced sale, and Sunbeam was picked up by the Rootes brothers. Manufacture of Sunbeam's now old-fashioned cars did not resume under the new owners, but Sunbeam trolleybuses remained in production. Rootes had intended to sell luxury cars under the Sunbeam name, but almost four years after their purchase, in 1938, the two brothers instead chose to add the name Sunbeam to their Talbot branded range of Rootes designs calling them Sunbeam-Talbots. In 1954 they dropped the word Talbot, leaving just Sunbeam. Sunbeam continued to appear as a marque name on new cars until 1976. It was then used as a model name, firstly for the Chrysler Sunbeam from 1977 to 1979, and, following the takeover of Chrysler Europe by PSA Group, for the Talbot Sunbeam from 1979 through to its discontinuation in 1981.