The Albion 8 was one of the first private cars built by Albion Motors, the Glasgow firm that later became known for buses and lorries. The history of the company lists it as a twin-cylinder car of 2080 cc built from 1900 to 1904, in the years when passenger cars were the main industry of the business. Albion had been founded in 1899 by Thomas Blackwood Murray and Norman Osborne Fulton, began in a first floor works in Finnieston Street with seven employees and moved to Scotstoun in 1903. The same history records that in 1900 the company built its first motor car, a rustic-looking varnished wood dogcart with a flat-twin 8hp engine and solid tyres, without naming the model. Albion decided in 1909 to concentrate on commercial vehicles.
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Albion 8 (1900-1904) 2080 cc twin-cylinder
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Although the manufacture of motor cars was the main industry in the first ten years of its existence, it was decided in 1909 to concentrate on the production of commercial vehicles.
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