Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vulcan, based in Southport, England, made cars from 1902 until 1928 and commercial vehicles until 1953.Brothers Thomas and Joseph Hampson trading as Vulcan Motor Manufacturing and Trading built the first Vulcan car which was a 4 hp single cylinder belt driven type in 1902. In 1903 this grew to 6.5 hp and the chassis was now "armoured ash". Twin cylinder 1.5 litre models followed in 1904 now with steel chassis and in 1905 2 then 3 litre four-cylinder types appeared and the company moved from Yellow House Lane to Hawesside Street both in Southport.