Category:Cluley vehicles

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The Coventry firm of Clarke Cluley & Co were in business from 1890 until 1991. Their original business was cycle manufacture. Motor car manufacture was experimented with in 1904-5 but car production did not begin in earnest until 1920. The car shown in the photographs uploaded by Ptelea is a 10/20 2 seater with 4 cylinder side valve engine of 1460cc. The 10/20 evolved from the original 9.5hp car designed in 1920 by Cecil Bayliss. A total of 700 cars of this general type were built by the company between 1920 and 1926. The actual car in the photographs is the 298th and it was supplied to the Fareham Motor & Engineering company on 11th September 1923 at a purchase price of £212. 10 shillings, this being the trade price. The retail price was £250.00 There are 9 surviving Cluley cars of this type. Clarke Cluley lost money on every car that they built, as a hand built small car was not economical to make in competition with mass producers like Morris and Austin. Several types of larger more luxurious car were made by the company until 1928, of which no complete examples survive. Clarke Cluley continued with bicycle manufacture until the late 1930s but their mainstay was textile machinery. We have 2 Cluley cars in our family, both restored and on the road.

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