Singer Ten

The three speed transmission was initially located with the rear axle but moved to the centre of the car in 1922 and from 1923 was in-unit with the engine.

The chassis had rigid axles front and rear with semi-elliptic leaf springs until 1922 when they changed to quarter elliptic.

On 11 July 1914, Beatrice Blore drove a Singer Ten car up the cable track of the Great Orme, with a gradient of 1 in 3 in places, becoming the first woman to drive up the steep and challenging headland.

She was six months pregnant at the time and the drive was a publicity stunt developed by her partner George Wilkin Browne to help sell the cars at his Llandudno garage, North Wales Silver Motors.

It had an 1185 cc overhead camshaft engine that was essentially an enlarged version of the one used in the Singer Bantam and shared its 95mm stroke.

[4] The chassis had beam axles front and rear and suspension by half elliptic leaf springs and hydraulic dampers.

After World War II the car was re-launched in January 1946 with a slightly larger 1194 cc engine developing 37 bhp and a revised gearbox.