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Coventry Climax was a United Kingdom fork-lift truck, fire pump, and specialty engine manufacturer.

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  • Coventry Climax
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  • Coventry Climax was a United Kingdom fork-lift truck, fire pump, and specialty engine manufacturer.
  • Coventry Climax was a British manufacturer of specialty engines and Machinery. It was founded in 1903 as Lee Stroyer, and was created to provide simple and low cost piston engines. The company also manufactured a limited number of cars. In 1905, after the departure of Stroyer, Henry Pelham Lee renamed the company as Coventry-Simplex, to reflect the location and the concept of simple piston engines. An early client was GWK, who produced over a thousand cars with Coventry-Simplex two cylinder engines in the period 1911-15. When civilian auto production shut down for the war, the company sold thousands of engines to the military to power searchlights. In 1917 the company name was changed to Coventry-Climax.
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defunct
  • 1986(xsd:integer)
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Fate
  • Purchased by Jaguar Cars, businesses merged by British Leyland or divested
Foundation
  • 1903(xsd:integer)
Company Name
  • Coventry Climax
Key people
  • Lee Stroyer, Henry Pelham Lee
Founder
  • Henry Pelham Lee
  • Lee Stroyer
Industry
  • Speciality machinery and engine manufacture
Successor
  • Kalmar Climax
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company logo
  • 330(xsd:integer)
Location
  • Coventry
Predecessor
  • Coventry-Simplex
abstract
  • Coventry Climax was a United Kingdom fork-lift truck, fire pump, and specialty engine manufacturer.
  • Coventry Climax was a British manufacturer of specialty engines and Machinery. It was founded in 1903 as Lee Stroyer, and was created to provide simple and low cost piston engines. The company also manufactured a limited number of cars. In 1905, after the departure of Stroyer, Henry Pelham Lee renamed the company as Coventry-Simplex, to reflect the location and the concept of simple piston engines. An early client was GWK, who produced over a thousand cars with Coventry-Simplex two cylinder engines in the period 1911-15. When civilian auto production shut down for the war, the company sold thousands of engines to the military to power searchlights. In 1917 the company name was changed to Coventry-Climax. Throughout the 1920s and 30s the company provided engines to manufacturers of lighter cars, including GWK, Morgan and Triumph.
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