RECORDS OF E W JACKSON AND SON LTD, VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS, DONCASTER

Comprising: photographs, drawings and newspaper cuttings

This firm established in 1904 manufactured motor vehicles on its Frenchgate premises. These vehicles were sold under the name of the 'Cheswold', after the nearby River Cheswold, an arm of the River Don. The firm produced 75 cars between approximately 1910 and 1914 of a 15.9h.p. four-seater tourer type which was featured in the Autocar in 1913 (see item DY/JACK/23 below). Two of these vehicles were still in existence in the late 1960s. In addition some two-dozen saloon cars were produced of the type shown in item DY/JACK/10, and the firm also manufactured a motor ambulance (see items DY/JACK/21 and 22). The firm abandoned vehicle manufacture after the outbreak of war in 1914 when it began to undertake aeronautical and mechanical engineering work for the government. After the 1914-1918 War the firm became a distributor for the major motor manufacturers. The original owners of the business were Edward Walker Jackson, a retired cloth manufacturer from Morley and his son Edward Almond Jackson, who died in 1963. The business ceased trading in 1983.

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