Argyll

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Argyll | Pre War British Sports Cars


The Argyll was mainly known as a high-grade touring car. It was originally built at Bridgeton, Glasgow, but as the cars became more and more popular the works were moved to a large, modern factory at Alexandria, near Balloch, Loch Lomond. It has been said that the expense incurred in constructing this fac­tory was the main cause of the demise of the Argyll car. Things like marble staircases were certainly not conducive to normally hard-headed Scottish engineering projects.

The Argylls were noted for the excellence of their single-sleeve Knight engines, which gained for them a reputation for reliability and smoothness which is still recalled whenever the cars are dis­cussed. Argylls were prominent in reliability trials of the early 'twenties. As a matter of interest, Argylls possessed four-wheel brakes as early as 1910.
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