SCOTTISH COMMERCIAL CARS
The expansively-named General Motors was managed in 1919 by Sam Gilchrist who made perhaps a couple of dozen Hotchkiss-engined Gilchrist cars in the early 1920s to compete with the Le Zèbres sold by General Motors. It may well have been a relation of Sam’s called Gordon Gilchrist who was the MD at Halley at the time that North British Locomotive came on board.
General Motors or Caledon also sold two-ton lorries built by Shefflex. As Sheffield Simplex, this firm had made luxury cars and also the Commer two-tonner when Luton concentrated on three-tonners for the War Office. Quite why it was permitted to carry on after the war and why they were allowed to be sold in
