English Mechanic

GB, 1900 – 1905

The English Mechanic was never a make in the ordinary sense of the word, for there was no company or factory with the English Mechanic name. In January 1900 the magazine ‘The English Mechanic and World of Science and Art’ began a series of articles entitled ‘a small car and how to build it’. Written by the engineer, T.Hyler White, the articles gave detailed instructions and plans to build the English Mechanic, and gave advice on where to buy those parts which the amateur mechanic did not feel up to making himself. The first ‘English Mechanic’ car had a 3hp single-cylinder engine, and was very similar to the Benz design. Later English Mechanic designs included a 2-cylinder double-acting steam car with front-mounted condenser and chain drive, a light steam 3-wheeler with a 2-cylinder single-acting engine and a slightly Bollée-like appearance, a petrol car with an 8hp 2-cylinder vertical engine and shaft drive, and finally a 5hp runabout on American lines, with a single-cylinder engine under the seat, and single chain drive. When the last English Mechanic car article had appeared in July 1905, the versatile Hyler White started a new series on how to make the English Mechanic piano player. At least two English Mechanic cars survive, a 1900 Benz-type, and a 1904 8hp 2-cylinder tonneau.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GNG
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