16 Facts About Karrier

Karrier was a British marque of motorised municipal appliances and light commercial vehicles and trolley buses manufactured at Karrier Works, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, by Clayton and Co.

Karrier produced buses as well as their other municipal vehicles and in latter years, especially during the Second World War, Trolleybuses, notably their Karrier 'W' model.

In 1934 Karrier became part of the Rootes Group where it retained its brand identity though the business was operated as part of Rootes's Commer commercial vehicle operation.

The Karrier name began to disappear from products when Chrysler bought Rootes in 1967.

Karrier experienced financial difficulties and suffered substantial losses in the late 1920s.

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Plan to amalgamate T S Motors Limited with Karrier agreed in August 1932 was dropped a month later without explanation.

The following August 1933 Karrier tardily announced that under difficult trading conditions they had made a substantial loss during that 1932 calendar year.

At the beginning of June 1934 Karrier was put into receivership though it was announced that business would continue while "negotiations" were completed.

Rootes closed the Huddersfield operation and moved production to Commer's Luton works but trolley-bus manufacture was moved to Moorfield Works, Wolverhampton where the same Karrier designs were to be built alongside Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles' trolley-buses.

The last vestige of Karrier was probably in the Dodge 50 Series, which began life badged as a Dodge but with a Karrier Motor Company VIN plate.

Karrier trademark is still in the possession of Peugeot, and it is not uncommon for vehicle marques to be reinstated.

One characteristic of the early Karrier trucks was their preference to have the engine under the footboards, thereby giving a larger proportion of the length of the vehicle over to the load bed.

In 1920 Karrier announced they had been developing their own engine for some time, and this would now be fitted in all their models.

In 1929, Karrier started production of the "Colt" three-wheeler as a dustcart chassis for Huddersfield Corporation.

Karrier's Ro-Railer was a hybrid single decker bus, capable of running on both road and rail, intended for towns and villages distant from a railway.

Under Rootes ownership, Karrier trucks were generally a smaller size than their sister Commer brand, with "Bantam" models using 13-inch wheels – and "Gamecock" models using 16-inch wheels – to give lower loading height.