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The Bean

Jonathan Wood

(Shire album, 354)(The Shire book)

Shire, in association with the Michael Sedgwick Trust, 2001

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Description

The 11.9 hp Bean represented John Harper Bean's bid to manufacture Britain's most popular car of the 1920s, however it was a casualty of a tangled corporate infrastructure and sure-footed opposition from William Morris's famous Bullnose Cowley.

Table of Contents

  • Black Country beginnings, 1826-1919
  • Making cars, 1919-26
  • Under new management, 1926-29
  • Birtles and the Bean, 1924-28
  • Bean commcercials, 1924-31
  • Further reading
  • Places to visit

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