 1935 Sidecar and a Norton Model 18 in the Coventry Transport Museum | |
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| Industry | Motor vehicle bodies |
| Founded | 2 September 1922 in Blackpool, England |
| Founders | William Walmsley and William Lyons |
| Defunct | 30 September 1930 |
| Fate | Walmsley & Lyons sold to Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited |
| Successor | Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited |
| Headquarters | Blackpool, then Coventry , England |
| Products | Sidecars and car bodies |
| Brands | Swallow |
| Owners | William Walmsley and William Lyons |
Swallow Sidecar Company,[note 1] Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company, and Swallow Coachbuilding Company were trading names used by Walmsley & Lyons, partners and joint owners of a British manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars and automobile bodies in Blackpool, Lancashire (later Coventry, Warwickshire), before incorporating a company in 1930 to own their business, which they named Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited.
Under co-founder William Lyons, its business continued to prosper as S.S. Cars Limited and grew into Jaguar Cars Limited. The sidecar manufacturing business, by then owned by a different company, Swallow Coachbuilding Company (1935) Limited, was sold by Jaguar in January 1946 to an aircraft maintenance firm, Helliwell Group.
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