{"id":880000,"date":"2024-12-02T16:09:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=880000"},"modified":"2025-01-14T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:46:04","slug":"a-look-back-at-reid-railton-and-the-arabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/a-look-back-at-reid-railton-and-the-arabs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at Reid Railton and the Arabs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An image of Reid Railton with his parents depicted the engineer at the time of his decision, supported by Henry Spurrier III, to design and produce an automobile of his own conception.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the midst of Britain\u2019s post-war turmoil engineer Reid Railton was freshly out of a job at the beginning of 1923. So was his friend Henry Spurrier III, although he\u00a0 was still working at Leyland Motors but on a reduced salary. Born in June of 1898, Henry Spurrier \u201cJunior\u201d was three years less eight days younger than Reid Railton. \u201cA great deal of both work and leisure time was spent in each other\u2019s company,\u201d wrote Hugh Tours. Spurrier and Railton, close in years, became life-long friends.<\/p>\n

Unfinished business remained at Leyland. The company\u2019s directors, wrote Miles Thomas in The Motor<\/em>, \u201chave come to the decision to investigate the question of the market for a small and cheap chassis suitable alternatively for a light car and a 10 to 15 cwt. van. It is intended at first to produce the chassis in very small numbers in the experimental shops of the company.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n