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William Watson (motoring pioneer)
William Watson (6 November 1873 – 5 August 1961) was a Liverpool-born racing driver and motoring pioneer. A champion cyclist as a young man, he founded W Watson & Co, cycle and motorcar manufacturer, in 1901. He won the epic 1908 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race driving a Hutton-Napier named ''Little Dorrit''. He also raced in Berliet, Vauxhall and Essex cars. He expanded Watson & Co from Liverpool to Chester, Colwyn Bay, London, Birkenhead and Crewe, creating the largest car distributing organisation in the North of England, specialising in Morris and Rolls-Royce cars.
==Early career==
William Watson was born in 1873, the youngest child of Timothy Watson, a milk dealer in the West Derby area of Liverpool. He won a scholarship to Liverpool College, then became a Solicitor's Clerk, but abandoned the legal profession for cycle racing and manufacture. He was an active member of the Liverpool Wheelers Cycling Club. After earlier outings on penny-farthings, he became 25-mile cycling champion at New Brighton and broke many local speed records. He established Watson & Dickinson, builders of racing bicycles, at 30 Falkner Street, Liverpool, in 1897. He then imported De Dion-Bouton petrol engines to make powered tricycles, and by 1900 was producing and selling the two-seater "W & D Quad". In 1901 he founded W Watson & Co, cycle and motor car manufacturers, and acquired additional premises in Vine Street, Liverpool.〔Scott-Moncrieff 1958 p 6〕〔Radcliffe 1961〕
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