JOTTINGS | Armstrong Siddeley

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Pictures from the Heritage Archives.

Armstrong Siddeley in Adverts From the advertisement we showed in this column last week we learned how John Siddeley's friendship with th...

Jan 15

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Armstrong Siddeley in Adverts Another of John Siddeley's accomplishments was his great ability to promote and publicise himself and his w...

Jan 8

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Armstrong Siddeley in Adverts The pictures in our 'Jottings' column in December last, featured the final cars manufactured by the Armstro...

Dec 24, 2020

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The Trustees and Web Master would like to wish all our readers the very best Christmas that individual circumstances will allow. We wish ...

Dec 18, 2020

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With Christmas approaching how about shopping 1959 style? This picture shows a 1959 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire on display in a corn...

Dec 12, 2020

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Motoring Last week we enjoyed thoughts of spring and summer outings. This week we confront the reality of the season we are currently enj...

Dec 3, 2020

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Motoring memories Continuing with our memories of motoring from the time before and after the Second World War, we are indebted to Keith ...

Nov 26, 2020

News of a Web update

Continuing with the development of the history and facts concerning the Armstrong Siddeley car models from their introduction in 1919 we ...

Nov 20, 2020

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Workers cars part 5 Still standing at the mouth of Paradise Street we turn around to view along Parkside, back in the direction of the bi...

Nov 13, 2020

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Workers cars part five In this picture we are standing where Paradise Street sweeps round to meet Parkside giving us a view over the wast...

Nov 6, 2020

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Workers cars part four This photo is believed to show part of the first floor level parking provided for the office staff. Access was fro...

Oct 30, 2020

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Workers cars part three For workers living near the factory public transport, cycling and walking would have been the order of the day, b...

Oct 24, 2020

Siddeley Times Competition number two.

Members of the Armstrong Siddeley Trust who are attempting to find the answers to the competition in the Autumn 2020 issue of Siddeley Ti...

Oct 23, 2020

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Workers transport - part two. Continuing with our tour around the perimeter of the Armstrong Siddeley factory at Parkside, Coventry, we f...

Oct 16, 2020

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Workers cars Over the past weeks we have viewed many of the skilled workers as they toiled at their varied tasks to bring about motors of...

Oct 11, 2020

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Record breakers Part 2 The car which we featured last week, which broke through the '300 mph barrier' with Malcolm Campbell (later Sir Ma...

Oct 2, 2020

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Part one Record breakers The year is 1935 and the location, the Armstrong Siddeley factory at Parkside, Coventry. These pictures are of M...

Sep 25, 2020

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Wall's Ice cream connected cars. Many of the cars which have survived the rigours of the sixty, or in many cases, considerably more years...

Sep 18, 2020

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Unusual uses for Aero engines. To complete our trilogy of unusual uses for engines designed for aircraft we might have considered those u...

Sep 11, 2020

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Power generation Another unusual use for an engine designed for an aeroplane. When most people think of Princetown, high on Dartmoor, the...

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