Vulcan
In 1901 the Vulcan Motor & Engineering Company was founded in Southport, Lancashire and exhibited their first at the Liverpool Cycle & Motor Show in the following year.
By 1906 the company had reached production of over 100 vehicles annually and was established outside of its Lancashire heartland. A new works was built at Crossends, though the Hawesside Street premises were retained for a few more years until further extensions were made at Crossends. Production was suspended during 1914-1918 and aircraft frames and aero engines were made.
Commercial vehicles had been built during World War I, but the company continued car production after war ceased until 1927, when the last cars were built. Vulcan decided to enter the market for municipal vehicles and introduced a low-floor chassis but by 1931 was in receivership but the company kept going until 1937 when Tilling-Stevens took control and production moved to Maidstone. The "Jubilee" and "Retriever" were names of two-ton trucks produced in the mid thirties. The Crossends works was sold to the Brockhouse Company
