176:
126:
160:
168:
141:, Staffordshire on a motor-quadricycle he had built himself. He prepared a report for the Sunbeam directors and delivered it on 11 November 1902. He recommended that Sunbeam should buy in a car from an established firm then, as sales built up, buying them without certain components which would instead be made by Sunbeam until all that was bought in would be an engine. At the close of his report he recommended the cars be bought from Berliet in Lyon.
114:
in 1896 he used a 2ÂĽ horsepower de Dion engine to build a car he named La Mouche or The Fly. To solve the cooling problems of high-speed air-cooled engines he designed the first water-cooled cylinder head and many were bought by de Dion Bouton. Pullinger was particularly interested in the kind of
210:
He travelled to the USA to research mass production methods and car factory design, resulting in the erection of a new steel reinforced concrete and glass factory for Arrol-Johnston at
Heathhall,
106:
perhaps the first small car. A 2-seater, it had a 2-cylinder horizontal engine, 2-speeds with friction clutches and a tubular frame. Duncan and
Superbie built motorcycles under licence from
259:, Jersey and described his recreations as farming and yachting. He died in July 1945 at a hospital in London's Kensington while still reported to be living on the island of Jersey.
225:) with a structured apprenticeship system building aero engine components for the Heathhall Dumfries Works. Following the end of the war the factory switched to the manufacture of
383:
393:
214:. This is believed to be the first building of its kind in Britain. It was designed by Albert Kahn, architect of the Ford factory at Highland Park, Michigan.
388:
31:
JP (1867 – July 1945) was an
English automobile engineer. He began his career working with bicycles before the first cars were built. After working for
184:
102:
as
Darracq's designer and personal assistant. He moved on as works manager to other French firms designing for Duncan and Superbie near Paris at
175:
133:
Keen to design and build his own car, he moved back to
England seeing more opportunity there than in France, and arrived at the
378:
125:
262:
In 1893 Pullinger married Aurélie
Berenice Sitwell (1871–1956) and they had four sons and six daughters, the eldest being
144:
He left
Sunbeam before the formation of the separate car company in 1904, taking up an appointment of general manager at
107:
159:
237:
52:
134:
32:
148:
120:
95:
68:
196:
188:
263:
222:
204:
151:
works. Humber's
Beeston Works closed and operations transferred to their more modern Coventry factory.
373:
368:
247:
He seems to have remained with
Beardmore's businesses until his retirement. Beardmore died in 1937.
111:
43:, where he developed structured apprenticeship programmes and an engineering college for women.
167:
103:
99:
82:, he repaired then manufactured, most likely by assembling bought-in components, bicycles at
312:
192:
145:
40:
36:
362:
241:
233:
218:
163:
Part of the new works at
Heathhall, Dumfries, 1913 and a portrait of Thomas Pullinger
138:
91:
79:
72:
232:
During the First World War Thomas Pullinger carried out design proposals made by
256:
56:
221:
in 1916 which was conceived as an engineering college for young ladies (see
83:
98:. But Humber encountered difficulties and Pullinger stayed in France with
226:
211:
200:
87:
60:
195:. Pullinger and his large family settled in Swinlees farm, just outside
240:
aero engine used in many wartime aircraft and later developed into the
116:
207:
created a sketchbook of drawings and simple paintings of the area.
71:, and was then apprenticed to long-established Dartford engineers,
313:"The Dalry Connection to the Arrol Johnston - Garnock Connections"
174:
166:
158:
124:
64:
28:
25:
22:
229:
cars, Arrol-Johnston cars but in a medium price range.
266:, a pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman.
255:
On retirement he lived at The Brae in the parish of
59:and his wife born Marianne Willis, he was born in
187:, businessman and shipbuilder, as manager of the
86:and then in 1891 (while living in Bolt Street,
94:to France for Humber's joint venture with the
115:cars built on the opposite side of Lyon by a
8:
384:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
394:People educated at Dartford Grammar School
179:1924 Galloway 10–20 designed by Pullinger
39:, he helped expand the Scottish works of
298:page 17, Ian Nickols and Kent Karslake,
78:Following a stretch as a draughtsman at
275:
185:William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn
67:, and while living in Bexley attended
281:
279:
7:
335:
333:
217:He oversaw a second new factory at
193:Arrol-Johnston Car Company Limited
16:Automobile engineer (1867 – 1945)
14:
389:People in the automobile industry
285:Ian Nickols and Kent Karslake,
20:Thomas Charles Willis Pullinger
1:
317:www.garnockconnections.org.uk
238:Beardmore Halford Pullinger
203:, where their eldest child
183:In 1910 he was taken on by
108:Hildebrand & WolfmĂĽller
410:
110:. At Teste & Moret of
55:Thomas Penford Pullinger,
135:Sunbeam Motor Car Company
129:1903 Sunbeam 12 (Berliet)
171:1914 Arrol-Johnston 11.9
149:Beeston, Nottinghamshire
121:Audibert & Lavirotte
96:Gladiator Cycle Company
69:Dartford Grammar School
379:British businesspeople
302:, Cassell, London 1956
289:, Cassell, London 1956
180:
172:
164:
130:
178:
170:
162:
128:
264:Dorothée Pullinger
223:Dorothée Pullinger
181:
173:
165:
131:
100:Alexandre Darracq
401:
353:
346:
340:
337:
328:
327:
325:
323:
309:
303:
300:Motoring Entente
296:
290:
287:Motoring Entente
283:
80:Woolwich Arsenal
409:
408:
404:
403:
402:
400:
399:
398:
359:
358:
357:
356:
347:
343:
339:Who's Who, 1938
338:
331:
321:
319:
311:
310:
306:
297:
293:
284:
277:
272:
253:
157:
53:Fleet Paymaster
49:
17:
12:
11:
5:
407:
405:
397:
396:
391:
386:
381:
376:
371:
361:
360:
355:
354:
352:, 24 July 1945
341:
329:
304:
291:
274:
273:
271:
268:
252:
249:
236:to create the
156:
155:Arrol-Johnston
153:
117:Marius Berliet
90:) was sent by
73:J & E Hall
51:Eldest son of
48:
45:
41:Arrol-Johnston
15:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
406:
395:
392:
390:
387:
385:
382:
380:
377:
375:
372:
370:
367:
366:
364:
351:
345:
342:
336:
334:
330:
318:
314:
308:
305:
301:
295:
292:
288:
282:
280:
276:
269:
267:
265:
260:
258:
251:Personal life
250:
248:
245:
243:
242:Siddeley Puma
239:
235:
234:Frank Halford
230:
228:
224:
220:
219:Kirkcudbright
215:
213:
208:
206:
202:
198:
194:
191:works of his
190:
186:
177:
169:
161:
154:
152:
150:
147:
142:
140:
139:Wolverhampton
136:
127:
123:
122:
118:
113:
109:
105:
101:
97:
93:
89:
85:
81:
76:
74:
70:
66:
62:
58:
54:
46:
44:
42:
38:
34:
30:
27:
24:
21:
349:
344:
320:. Retrieved
316:
307:
299:
294:
286:
261:
254:
246:
231:
216:
209:
182:
143:
132:
77:
50:
47:Early career
19:
18:
374:1945 deaths
369:1867 births
322:3 September
363:Categories
270:References
257:St Brelade
350:The Times
84:New Cross
348:Deaths,
227:Galloway
212:Dumfries
205:Dorothée
201:Ayrshire
146:Humber's
88:Deptford
61:Dartford
189:Paisley
104:Croissy
33:Sunbeam
92:Humber
37:Humber
197:Dalry
324:2021
112:Lyon
65:Kent
35:and
137:in
119:at
29:OBK
26:OBE
23:CBE
365::
332:^
315:.
278:^
244:.
199:,
75:.
63:,
57:RN
326:.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
