Harvard swallow side car spec

Previously wrote:

I have a big four 1951 with a harvard swallow side car which is incomplete. Does anybody have any pictures, drawings or anything else to help me restore it. Thanks

Hi David, My big 4 1948has a swallow sidecar on which was fitted when the bike was almost new. The owner had to go on waiting lists in those days. The bike came through one shop in dunstable and the sidecar through a shop in Biggleswade. I think it was converted to a single adult from open hooded sidecar with child's dickie seat in the boot. The sidecar looks like the one in the Norton Catalogue but the chassis does not have the tube outside of the wheel. The name Swallow is cast into one of the lugs. That is my only clue to the make.

Swallow Sidecars were owned by the makers of Jaguar Cars at one point. Eventually it was a name in the Watsonian range.

Previously wrote:

Swallow Sidecars were owned by the makers of Jaguar Cars at one point. Eventually it was a name in the Watsonian range.

Swallow Sidecars actually became Jaguar. When they expanded to include the production of car bodies in the 1930's (firstly on an Austin 7, then various Standard chassis) they marketed them as SS cars - short for 'Swallow Sidecars' (the most famous being the SS100 sports car). This name, however, became untenable with the onset of the Second World War when 'SS' acquired very sinister connotations and they emerged into the post-war world as 'Jaguar Cars', taking their name from one of their 1930's models.