Sizaire-Berwick
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| Industry | Automotive |
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| Founded | 1913 |
| Founder | (1877-1970) Georges Sizaire (1880-1924) Frederick William Berwick (1873) |
| Defunct | 1927 |
| Headquarters |
Courbevoie, France Park Royal, London, England |
Sizaire-Berwick was an Anglo-French automobile manufacturer active between 1913 and 1927.
As established, the company manufactured luxury-sized cars at Courbevoie on the north side of Paris. The business was financed in England, however, and it was also in England that most of the cars were united with their bodies and found their customers.
For several years during the early 1920s, Sizaire-Berwick cars were also manufactured in England.
The brothers (1877–1970) and Georges Sizaire (1880–1924) founded the Sizaire-Naudin company in 1903. In 1912 the Sizaire brothers left the Sizaire-Naudin company, however, following disagreement with an investor.
Nevertheless, the Sizaire brothers’ participation in the automotive business was far from over and, in 1913, with the help of Frederick William Berwick, the London-based UK importer of Corre La Licorne cars, they obtained finance in London for the launch of a new automobile manufacturing company called Sizaire-Berwick. The new company produced large luxury cars. The pre-cars were produced at the brothers’ homebase in Courbevoie, on the northern edge of Paris, but 80% of the production was shipped to England where they received their bodies, mostly fitted by Berwick’s own coachbuilder located at Highgate, on the north side of London. By the time war broke out in 1914, 139 cars had been produced.
In 1915, Berwick built a new factory at Park Royal, a London suburb used initially for the production of aeroplanes. Following the outbreak of peace, Berwick founded, in 1919, the company F. W. Berwick & Co Ltd and in 1920 he started production of British-built Sizaire-Berwicks. These continued to be produced till 1925.
In 1919, the French end of the business was acquired by an American named Burke. He started out by importing cars from Berwick’s factory in England, but very soon after this the company was again producing cars at Courbevoie. In 1923, Austin gained a controlling share in the British end of the business.
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