Karrier
In 1904 Herbert and Reginald Clayton formed Clayton & Company in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. By 1908 the firm had started to make "Karrier Cars" probably an intentional miss-spelling of the name carrier. Well established by the outbreak of the Great War, the firm produced over 2000 WDS subsidy 3 or 4 ton chassis.
By 1920 the name had been changed to Karrier Motors Limited, still with the Claytons in charge. It quickly established as a provider of chassis for municipal chassis; dustcarts and road sweepers. They also provided four and six wheel bus chassis, and by 1926 trolleybuses too. Clough, Smith & Co. Ltd was makers of electrical equipment and following the collapse of the Straker Squire Company approached Karrier as an alternative chassis provider.
In 1932 Tilling-Stevens had tried to buy Karrier, but the directors fought off that take over. By the end of 1934 however, they were no longer able to fight the larger Rootes Group, who acquired the company; closing the Huddersfield operations and moving production to Luton.
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