Exactly one year past, our January 18 th  2024 entry to this website centred on the preparations being undertaken by Armstrong Siddeley Motors Parkside, as they upgraded the factory Fire Station and equipment, in readiness for the soon coming World War II hostilities. Many of our regular readers, like ourselves, probably wished that the, then new, Commer Q- series truck, fire engine and Coventry Climax pump unit had enjoyed better photographic coverage, but we just have to work with what is...

We have published a new page dedicated to the Siddeley Puma aero-engine and its related engines, the Double Puma, the Pacific, and the Tiger. The Tiger on this page is the 1918 V12 engine, not to be confused with the 1930s Radial engine. Siddeley Puma Aero-Engine The page includes details of the history of the Puma engine and its development from the BHP/Galloway Adriatic engine, technical details of its evolution into prototype engines, previously forgotten photographs, and photographs of...

The Sapphire 346 which became a Star. Usually, when a heading like this is shown it leads to a story of how ‘the car saved the day, or perhaps some very important person alighted from it in a fanfare of trumpets, but in this case it quite literally morphed from Sapphire 346 model into the new Star Sapphire model. The board at Armstrong Siddeley Motors felt that though the 346 Sapphire introduced in 1952, and later in Mk11 form, had sold very well the market indicated that it was time a new...