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Coventry Climax history
Coventry Climax was a British fork-lift truck, fire pump, and specialty engine manufacturer.
History
The company was started in 1903 as Coventry-Simplex by H. Pelham Lee, a former Daimler employee, who saw a need for competition in the nascent piston engine market. An early use of Coventry-Simplex engines was to power the tractors that were to be used in the Shackleton trans-antarctic expedition in 1914. In 1917 the company was reformed as Coventry Climax but they continued to supply Cov
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