Challenge (cycle and car)

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Challenge started to make cycles in Foleshill, Coventry, England in 1903; they also made a Challenge light car from about 1912 to 1915.{{cite book |author = City planning services, Coventry City Council| publisher = Industrial Press

|title = Coventry Car Factories: A centenary Guide |pages = 8–9 |date= 1 March 1995}} They moved into new premises on Foleshill Road, Coventry around 1906 or 1907, which consisted of an impressive symmetrical red-brick office building with sheds behind. The Edwardian office building still stands today.

The earliest known examples of their work include A 1905 Challenge Motorcycle, and a 1907 No3 Roadster sold by G.W.Rice as "The Surbiton".