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Coventry-Premier Ltd made bicycles and motor cycles until 1913, when they engaged G.W.A. Brown, formerly of Clement-Talbot, to produce a small car. When it appeared six years later the Coventry-Premier was basically a cyclecar with three wheels instead of the more normal four. The power unit, a water-cooled V-twin, was in character, but although early Coventry-Premier models were chain-driven, an attempt was soon made to give the little machine at least one ‘big-car’ characteristic by providing a 3-speed and reverse sliding-pinion gearbox and shaft drive. In fact, the Coventry-Premier cars grew up very quickly, for after being taken over by Singer in 1920, it reappeared with four wheels, still under its own name; Coventry-Premier. By the following year it had a 4-cylinder Singer engine with push-rod ohv and was a cheap version of the Singer Ten.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN
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