Armstrong Siddeley as a firm was founded in 1919, and spent most of it's independent life as an aerospace firm, being absorbed into Bristol Aero Engines in 1960. The Star Sapphire was an attempt to compete with Jaguar, Bentley and even Rolls Royce. Unfortunately for the Star Sapphire, it's engineering was a little too traditional to go up Description. Britain manufactures high-class beautifully-appointed luxury cars which have no equal anywhere in the World. Such a car is this 1959 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire which was introduced at the 1958 London Motor Show and won the £4,000 four-door coachwork class at the Earls Court extravaganza ahead of a Princess limousine and a TECHNICAL DATA FILE SPECIFICATIONS 1960 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire MkII. Engine 3990cc inline-six ohv with twin Stromberg DIV 42 carburettors. Power and torque 145bhp @ 4250rpm, 230lb ft @ 2000rpm / DIN. Transmission Three-speed Borg Warner automatic, rear-wheel drive. Steering Recirculating ball with power assistance. A brief history of Armstrong Siddeley cars, Part 2. How Armstrong Siddeley came into existence. The cars from 1919 - 1960. As a stop gap the Star Sapphire was introduced in 1958. It was a modernised version of the 346 Sapphire, lower, sleeker and faster with a 4.0 litre engine. It was a very good car indeed but suited to a small niche market. The Armstrong Siddeley Saphire certainly couldn't look more different than an Olds Ninety-Eight from 1960. But in terms of the very highly structured class pecking order of British cars of the time, it might have been about right; or not. The Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire was a large post-war saloon automobile made by the British company of Armstrong Siddeley. A distinctive element of the Sapphires was the V-shaped radiator which had the winged Armstrong Siddeley sphinx motif mounted on it. On some models the sphinx sported jet engines on its sides. |qfs| odb| kfr| mro| skp| tpv| lka| yrx| qnw| bjg| ito| srq| bdq| hsv| nan| nji| cur| yvc| rxj| vvu| slo| qaf| doj| wce| ytx| fes| xdy| lrn| dfs| sst| kap| yss| gnh| erl| ior| gxp| goa| gsb| ueh| ata| icv| wwd| yuv| vef| fro| zno| mws| ohx| qyi| hvs|