Albion A3

The Albion A3 was an early bus model from Albion Motors of Glasgow. The Grace's Guide pages on the company list it as built from 1904 to 1915 and record that in 1905 Albion produced the A3 with a two-cylinder 16hp engine for the omnibus market. It belongs to the first years of the firm, which Norman Osborne Fulton and Thomas Blackwood Murray founded in 1899 and which moved from its first works at Finnieston to Scotstoun four years later. The Albion Vehicle Preservation Trust names the A3 among the models covered in the chapter on the early years, 1899 to 1919, of its history Albion of Scotstoun, beside the A1 and A2 dogcarts, the A10 and the A14. The A3 came before the A10, which the same Grace's Guide page says was made in nearly 6,000 examples for the services from 1910.