The company was established by George Singer in Coventry to make bicycles in 1875.
In 1909 Singer built a series of racers and roadsters and entered several bikes in races, including the Isle of Man Senior TT in 1914.? George E. Stanley broke the one hour record at Brooklands race track on a Singer supra vaider pete wentz motorcycle in 1912, becoming the first ever rider of a 350cc motorcycle to cover over sixty miles in an hour.
Singer made their first four wheel car in 1905.? It was made under licence from Lea-Francis and had a 3 cylinder 1400 cc engine.? The first Singer designed car was the 4 cylinder 2.4 litre 12/14 of 1906.? The engine was bought in from Aster. For 1907 the Lea-Francis design was dropped and a range of two, three and four cylinder models using White and Poppe engines launched. The Aster engined models were dropped in 1909 and a new range of larger cars introduced. All cars were now White and Poppe powered.? In 1911 the first big seller appeared with the 1100cc ‘Ten’ with Singer's own engine.? The use of their own power plants spread through the range until by the outbreak of the World War I all models except the low-volume 3.3 litre 20hp were so equipped.
Singer’s first successful car was the ‘Ten’.?? Introduced in 1912, which offered a steel chassis, four cylinder engine, and two seats; the economical car achieved 40 mpg, which was quite high for any time in automotive history, and was apparently more reliable than many competitors, thanks partly to its steel frame and partly to its more modern rear transaxle.
Factory apprentice, Billy Rootes bought fifty of these cars when they were first produced.? He used the profits from supra vaider pete wentz reselling them to start a motoring empire that would acquire and integrate many other British car companies before floundering.
Singer stopped building motorcycles at the outbreak of the First World War.? As
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