Swallow Sidecar Company

Walmsley & Lyons

1935 Sidecar and a Norton Model 18 in the Coventry Transport Museum
Trade name	Swallow Sidecar Company (1922–1926) Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company (1926–1927) Swallow Coachbuilding Company (1927–1930)
Industry	Motor vehicle bodies
Founded	2 September 1922 (1922-09-02) in Blackpool, England
Founders	William Walmsley and William Lyons
Defunct	30 September 1930 (1930-09-30)
Fate	Walmsley & Lyons sold to Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited
Successor	Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited
Headquarters	Blackpool, then Coventry , England
Products	Sidecars and car bodies
Brands	Swallow
Owners	William Walmsley and William Lyons

Swallow Sidecar Company,^{[note 1]} Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company, and Swallow Coachbuilding Company were trading names used by Walmsley & Lyons, partners and joint owners of a British manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars and automobile bodies in Blackpool, Lancashire (later Coventry, Warwickshire), before incorporating a company in 1930 to own their business, which they named Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited.

Under co-founder William Lyons, its business continued to prosper as S.S. Cars Limited and grew into Jaguar Cars Limited. The sidecar manufacturing business, by then owned by a different company, Swallow Coachbuilding Company (1935) Limited, was sold by Jaguar in January 1946 to an aircraft maintenance firm, Helliwell Group.
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