page_title: Swallow Sidecar Company
section_title: Helliwell
hierarchical_section_title: Swallow Sidecar Company / After Swallow / Helliwell
caption_attribution_description: Monterey_Historics_2011-10-153
context_page_description: Swallow Sidecar Company, Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company, and Swallow Coachbuilding Company were trading names used by Walmsley & Lyons, partners and joint owners of a British manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars and automobile bodies in Blackpool, Lancashire, before incorporating a company in 1930 to own their business, which they named Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited.
  Under co-founder William Lyons, its business continued to prosper as S.S. Cars Limited and grew into Jaguar Cars Limited. The sidecar manufacturing business, by then owned by a different company, Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited, was sold by Jaguar in January 1946 to an aircraft maintenance firm, Helliwell Group.
context_section_description: In January 1946 the Helliwell Group, an aircraft maintenance firm, bought Swallow Coachbuilding Company (1935) Limited from Jaguar Cars Limited. Sidecars produced at Helliwells' Walsall Airport works were built in the same way as the originals and used the same patented trademark. They closed shop in the late 1950s.
caption: 1954 Swallow Doretti
  by Swallow Coachbuilding (1935)
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