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Singer name once associated with cars, not sewing machines
2000
Overview
Singer eventually abandoned sewing machines for the bicycle industry, and by 1895 was able to form the Singer Cycle Company. After several years building a variety of two- and three-wheelers, some of them motorized, Singer entered the automobile industry in 1905 as Singer & Company Ltd. making Lea-Francis cars under licence. Others were added, and Singer prospered to the point that by the mid-1920s it was Britain's third largest auto manufacturer behind Morris and Austin. In 1926 Singer introduced the Singer Junior with an 848-cc, overhead-cam four, setting an overhead cam pattern that Singer would use in many of its cars for some 30 years. While the performance of the MG and the Singer was comparable, the Singer lacked the style and panache of the MG. They both had cut down doors, a fold-down windshield, clamshell fenders and free-standing headlamps, but in the two-seater MG they came out looking low and sleek, whereas the four-passenger Singer looked high and ungainly. Also, the Singer lacked a tachometer, an inexcusable omission for a sports car.
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