Karrier
Sign in to saveKarrier was a British marque of motorised municipal appliances and light commercial vehicles and trolley buses manufactured at Karrier Works, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, by Clayton and Co. (Huddersfield) Limited. They began making Karrier motor vehicles in 1908 in Queen Street South, Huddersfield. In 1920, H.F. Clayton sold Clayton and Co's Huddersfield business into public listed company Karrier Motors while keeping their Penistone operation separate. Mechanical and electrical engineers Clayton & Co Penistone, remain active in 2020 as Clayton Penistone Group.
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- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- Huddersfield
- Industry
- automotive industry
- Image
- Karrier Bantam.jpg
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- Commons category
- Karrier
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1979-00-00
- inception
- 1904-01-01
- product or material produced
- truck
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18 sectionsContents
- Ownership
- Clayton and Co
- Rootes Group
- Chrysler Europe
- Peugeot and Renault
- Products
- Early trucks
- Light tractor units
- Ro-Railer
- Trolleybuses
- Rootes Group products
- Lorry or bus chassis
- Bus chassis
- Trolley bus chassis
- Light goods vehicles
- Scale models and die-cast
- Notes
- References
Karrier was a British marque of motorised municipal appliances and light commercial vehicles and trolley buses manufactured at Karrier Works, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, by Clayton and Co. (Huddersfield) Limited. They began making Karrier motor vehicles in 1908 in Queen Street South, Huddersfield. In 1920, H.F. Clayton sold Clayton and Co's Huddersfield business into public listed company Karrier Motors while keeping their Penistone operation separate. Mechanical and electrical engineers Clayton & Co Penistone, remain active in 2020 as Clayton Penistone Group.
Karrier produced buses as well as their other municipal vehicles and in latter years, especially during the Second World War, Trolleybuses, notably their Karrier 'W' model.
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