List of British cars
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This page tries to show every British car ever made by manufacturer.
  • Abbey
    Abbey (1922 automobile)
    The Abbey was a short-lived friction drive car assembled by the Abbey Auto Engineering Co. Ltd in Westminster, England. It used a 10.8 hp 1498 cc Coventry-Simplex engine. It was built in 1922 only and cost £315. It also had Marles steering and friction drive...

     (1922)
  • ABC
    ABC (1920 automobile)
    The ABC was an English car manufactured between 1920 and 1929 by ABC Motors.It was a light car , powered by a 1203 cc flat-twin, air-cooled engine designed by Granville Bradshaw...

     (1920-1929)
  • Aberdonia (1911-1915)
  • Abingdon
    Abingdon (1902 automobile)
    The Abingdon, built in 1902 and 1903, was an English automobile made by John Child Meredith of Birmingham, who normally manufactured ignition equipment and accessories....

     (1902-1903)
  • Abingdon
    Abingdon (1922 automobile)
    The Abingdon was an English assembled car built in small numbers in 1922 and 1923 in a factory in Tyseley, Birmingham. It used an 11-9hp 1490 cc 4 cylinder Dorman engine and a 3 speed gearbox. Only 12 were made...

     (1922-1923)
  • AC
    AC Cars
    AC Cars Group Ltd. formerly known as Auto Carriers Ltd. is a British specialist automobile manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car marques founded in Britain...

    (1908-present)
  • Academy
    Academy (automobile)
    The Academy was an English dual-control car built by West of Coventry between 1906 and 1908. The cars had a 14 hp 4-cylinder engine by White and Poppe....

     (1906-1908)
  • Accles-Turrell
    Accles-Turrell
    The Accles-Turrell was an English automobile built between 1899 and 1901 in Perry Bar, Birmingham, England and from 1901 to 1902 in Ashton-under-Lyne....

     (1899-1901)
  • Ace
    Ace (1913 automobile)
    The Ace was a British car that was built between 1912 and 1916 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It was an 8 hp light car, with a 748 cc, four-cylinder water-cooled monobloc engine with Stethnos carburettor, it had a 2-speed gearbox and chain-drive built by the same manufacturer as...

     (1912-1916)
  • Achilles
    Achilles (automobile)
    The Achilles was an English shaft-drive voiturette manufactured by B Thompson in Frome, Somerset between 1904 and 1908. A range of cars were advertised, mostly with single-cylinder engines by De Dion. Other mechanical parts were also bought in, and it seems likely that only the bodies were...

     (1904-1908)
  • Adams
    Adams (automobile)
    The Adams was an English automobile manufactured in Bedford between 1905 and 1914.American-born Edward R. Hewitt had helped Sir Hiram Maxim to build a large steam plane in 1894. He later designed a "gas buggy" along the lines of an Oldsmobile; this machine was built by the Adams Manufacturing...

     (1905-1914)
  • Adamson
    Adamson
    The Adamson was an English car manufactured in Enfield, Middlesex, from 1912 to 1925. It was designed by Reginald Barton Adamson at the premises of the family haulage contract business....

     (1912-1925)
  • Addison
    Addison (automobile)
    Billed as "the Mercedes of the tri-car world", the Addison was an English automobile built in Liverpool in 1906. The 6½ hp two-cylinder engine was controlled by variable-lift inlet valves....

     (1906)
  • Advance
    Advance (automobile)
    The Advance was an English tricar producing 6 hp offered from 1902 to 1912 by a Northampton motorcycle manufacturer....

     (1902-1912)
  • AEM
    AEM (1987 automobile)
    The AEM Scout was a Welsh-built Mini Moke type utility vehicle, with, zinc-coated bodywork & totally different styling not to mention the radically different method of production...

     (1987)
  • Aero Car
    Aero Car (1919 automobile)
    The Aero Car was a British 5/7 hp flat twin-engine cyclecar manufactured from 1919 to 1920 by the Aerocar Engineering Company in Clapton, London. The engine was an air-cooled flat-twin built by Blackburne and the gearbox was a Sturmey-Archer. The body had a bullnose radiator and pointed tail....

     (1919-1920)
  • Aeroford
    Aeroford
    The Aeroford was an English automobile that was manufactured in Bayswater, London from 1920 to 1925. The Aeroford was an attempt to make the Ford Model T more attractive by disguising its appearance with a unique bonnet and radiator grille....

     (1920-1925)
  • Africar
    Africar
    The Africar project set out to provide vehicles able to cope well with the rough terrain of Africa but were cheap enough to be bought widely in Africa.-Design:...

     (1982-1988)
  • AGR
    AGR (automobile)
    The AGR was an English automobile built by Ariel & General Repairs of Brixton between 1911 and 1915.The company offered a 10/12 hp 1540 cc four-cylinder model based on the French Hurtu, a marque for which they were agents. The car was slightly longer than the Hurtu and the chassis price for...

     (1911-1915)
  • Airedale
    Airedale (automobile)
    The Airedale was an English automobile made in Esholt, near Guiseley, West Yorkshire. It was the successor to the Tiny made by Nanson, Barker & Co from 1911 to the outbreak of war in the same town....

     (1919-1924)
  • AJS
    AJS
    AJS was the name used for cars and motorcycles made by the Wolverhampton, England, company A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd, from 1909 to 1931, by then holding 117 motorcycle world records, and after the firm was sold the name continued to be used by Matchless, Associated Motorcycles and Norton-Villiers on...

     (1930-1932)
  • Albany
    Albany (1903 Automobile)
    The Albany was a British car made in London from 1903 to 1905. Albany Manufacturing Co. Ltd made both petrol and steam cars, the steamers designed by Frederick Lamplough, who had originally built a shaft-driven steamer in 1896. Better known as the Lamplough-Albany, it sported two engines coupled by...

     (1903-1905)
  • Albany
    Albany (automobile)
    The Albany was an English automobile, manufactured by the Albany Motor Carriage Company in Christchurch, Dorset from 1971 - 1997. The company was run by two brothers, Bryan and David Shepherd....

     (1971-1997)
  • Albatros
    Albatros (automobile)
    The Albatros was an English automobile manufactured in Croft Road, Coventry and founded in 1922 by H.T.W. Manwaring. The origin of the name is reputed to be derived from a play on the name of one Albert Ross, who was Manwaring's mentor and boss earlier in his career.There were two models, an 8 and...

     (1923-1924)
  • Alberford
    Alberford
    The Alberford was an English car manufactured in about 1922 to 1924 in Albert Bridge Garage, Chelsea, London. Marketed as "the ideal owner-driver car" it was based on a lengthened and possibly lowered chassis from a Model T Ford with wire wheels and a Rolls-Royce type radiator. The engine was...

     (1922-1924)
  • Albert
    Albert (automobile)
    The Albert was a light car designed by A. O. Lord, creator of the later Loyd-Lord. It was produced from 1920 to 1924 in Vauxhall and later Chiswick, London. The car was powered by a proprietary four cylinder 1495 cc ohv engine made by Gwynne and had four speed transmission. The cars were...

     (1920-1921)
  • Albion
    Albion Motors
    Albion Automotive of Scotstoun, Glasgow is a former Scottish automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer, currently involved in the manufacture and supply of Automotive component systems....

     (1900-1913)
  • ALC (1913)
  • Alex
    Alex (1908 Automobile)
    The Alex was a prototype light car produced by Alexander and Co, Edinburgh, in 1908. The sole car made utilized a 14/18 hp 4-cylinder Gnome engine and a Rubery Owen chassis. Production was stopped after the solitary prototype after costs were found to be too great.-References:^Bill Emery,...

     (1908)
  • Allard
    Allard (1899 automobile)
    The Allard was an English automobile manufactured by Allard & Co. of Coventry from 1899 to 1902.Originally a bicycle company, Allard moved into the motor industry by producing motor tricycles; the company then moved on to building a four-seater 4½ hp model based on the Benz, followed by a...

     (1899-1902)
  • Allard
    Allard
    The Allard Motor Company was an English car manufacturer founded in 1936 by Sydney Allard. The company, based in Putney, London. until 1945 and then in Clapham, London, produced approximately 1900 cars until its closure in 1966....

     (1937-1960)
  • Alldays & Onions
    Alldays & Onions
    Alldays & Onions was an English automobile maker, it manufactured cars from 1898 to 1918. The cars were sold under the Alldays name. The company also built an early British built tractor, the Alldays General Purpose Tractor.-History:...

     (1898-1918)
  • Allwyn
    Allwyn
    The Allwyn, or Allwin was a British cyclecar manufactured by Allwyn Cyclecars in Bournemouth, Hampshire in 1920.It had an air-cooled engine with either chain or belt drive to the rear axle which had no differential....

     (1920)
  • All-British
    All-British
    The All-British was an automobile built at Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland, from 1906 to 1908. The company was founded by George Johnston, formerly of Arrol-Johnston, primarily for the manufacture a 54hp eight-cylinder car with its cylinders arranged as two parallel fours; the pistons were actuated...

     (1906-1908)
  • Alta (1931-1947)
  • Alvechurch
    Alvechurch (automobile)
    The Alvechurch was a British cyclecar manufactured by the Alvechurch Light Car Company in Alvechurch, near Birmingham in 1911. The company was owned by Dunkleys, a pram maker, who also made cars under their own name....

     (1912)
  • Alvis
    Alvis Cars
    Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd was a British manufacturing company that existed in Coventry, England from 19191967. In addition to automobiles designed for the civilian market, the company also produced racing cars, aircraft engines, armoured cars and other armoured fighting vehicles, the...

     (1919-1967)
  • Amazon
    Amazon (automobile)
    The Amazon was a cyclecar produced by Amazon Cars Ltd in Billiter Street, London, EC3, England from 1921 to 1922.It featured a rear-mounted air-cooled twin 6/9 hp Coventry-Victor engine with chain drive to the rear wheels through a three-speed-and-reverse gearbox made by Juckes...

     (1921-22)
  • André
    Andre (car)
    André was a lightweight English two-seater sports car manufactured from 1933 to 1934 in London W11, by T B André who were better known for making shock absorbers....

     (1933-1934)
  • Anglian
    Anglian automobile
    The Anglian was an English tricar manufactured in Beccles, Suffolk from 1905 to 1907. The automobiles featured either a 3½ hp single-cylinder De Dion engine or 5 hp "twin coupled" power units....

     (1905-1907)
  • Anglo-American
    Anglo-American (automobile)
    The Anglo-American was an English motor tricycle produced by a York company from 1899 to 1900. The company also offered motors that it claimed were "manufactured throughout in our own works", but which were most likely Continental imports....

     (1899-1900)
  • Anglo-French
    Anglo-French (automobile)
    The Anglo-French was an English automobile manufactured by Leon l'Hollier's Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company of Birmingham from 1896 to 1897; the cars were basically Roger-Benz vehicles modified for the British market....

     (1896-1897)
  • Angus-Sanderson
    Angus-Sanderson
    The Angus-Sanderson was an English automobile manufactured from 1919 to 1927 by Sir William Angus, Sanderson & Company Ltd.In concept it was something like the Bean and Cubitt; the idea was that one model would be mass-produced, as Ford had done so successfully...

     (1919-1927)
  • Arab
    Arab (automobile)
    The Arab was a high-performance English automobile designed by Reid Railton and manufactured in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, between 1926 and 1928....

     (1926-1928)
  • Arbee (1904)
  • Archer
    Archer (automobile)
    The Archer was a British cyclecar designed by M Archer and made in 1920.It was powered by a two cylinder JAP engine rated at 8/10 hp. The two seats were placed one behind the other.The designer was more famous as the inventor of a trench mortar....

     (1920)
  • Arden
    Arden (automobile)
    The Arden was a British automobile manufactured from 1912 to 1916 in Balsall Heath, Coventry. Starting out as a light and somewhat crude cyclecar, by the time production finished four years later, it had grown into a well-made four-cylinder car, featuring full four-seater coachwork.The first model...

     (1912-1916)
  • Argon
    Argon (1908 automobile)
    The Argon was made by Grannaway Engineering Co, Earls Court, London S.W. in 1908. It was a fairly large touring car using a 25 hp 6-cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine. It was priced at 750 pounds. In 1905, the company was said to be planning a car deemed the Grannaway, but it is not clear...

     (1908)
  • Argyll (1899-1928)
  • Argyll (1976-1990)
  • Ariel
    Ariel (vehicle)
    Ariel was a bicycle, motorcycle and automobile marque manufacturer based in Bournbrook, Birmingham, England. Car production moved to Coventry in 1911. The company name was reused in 1999 for the formation of Ariel Ltd, a sports car producer.-History:...

     (1898-1915; 1922-1925)
  • Ariel
    Ariel Ltd
    Ariel Motors Ltd is a Crewkerne, Somerset, England based low-volume performance motor vehicle manufacturing company.Founded by Simon Saunders in 1991 as Solocrest Ltd, the name was changed in 2001 to Ariel Motors, although the name change and company have nothing to do with the former Ariel...

    (1999-present)
  • Arkley
    Arkley (automobile)
    The Arkley is an English automobile that was manufactured by John Britten Garages workshops at Arkley in the London Borough of Barnet.The first model was a two-seater called Arkley SS, designed by John Britten in 1970 .The retro "bug-eyed" design was inspired by a mixture of the Morgan and the...

     (1970-1995)
  • Armadale
    Armadale (automobile)
    The Armadale was an English automobile manufactured from 1906 to 1907 by Armadale Motors Ltd, Northwood, Middlesex, then Northwood Motor & Engineering Works, also of Northwood....

     (1906-1907)
  • Armstrong
    Armstrong (automobile)
    The Armstrong was an English automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1904; "claimed to be the best hill-climber extant", the car featured an International engine.After 1904, vehicle production came under Armstrong-Whitworth....

     (1902-1904)
  • Armstrong
    Armstrong (cyclecar)
    The Armstrong was a British 4-wheeled cyclecar made in 1913 and 1914 by the Armstrong Motor Company of Birmingham.The car was available with a choice of air- or water-cooled, two-cylinder 8 hp engines made by Precision. The cheaper air-cooled version had belt drive to the rear axle, but the...

     (1913-1914)
  • Armstrong Siddeley
    Armstrong Siddeley
    Armstrong Siddeley was a British engineering group that operated during the first half of the 20th century. It was formed in 1919 and is best known for the production of luxury motor cars and aircraft engines.-Siddeley Autocars:...

     (1919-1960)
  • Armstrong Whitworth
    Armstrong Whitworth
    Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. Headquartered in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth engaged in the construction of armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles, and aircraft.-History:In 1847,...

     (1904-1919)
  • Arno
    Arno (automobile)
    The Arno was an English automobile manufactured in Coventry only in 1908; the car, which featured a 25hp White and Poppe engine and shaft drive, was introduced at that year's Stanley Show....

     (1908)
  • Arnold
    Arnold (automobile)
    The Arnold was one of the first motor cars manufactured in the United Kingdom. It was produced in East Peckham, Kent between 1896 and 1898.-History:William Arnold & Sons of East Peckham, Kent, was an agricultural engineering company founded in about 1844....

     (1896-1898)
  • Arnott
    Arnott (automobile)
    The Arnott was a car made by Arnott’s Garages in Harlesden, London, from 1951 to 1957.Miss Daphne Arnott commenced production with a Formula 3 car designed by G. Thornton that used a tubular ladder frame with a torsion bar suspension. The model achieved success both in racing as well as in breaking...

     (1951-1957)
  • Arrol-Aster
    Arrol-Aster
    Arrol-Aster was a British car maker founded in 1927 when Arrol-Johnston and Aster merged. The Wembley, London works of Aster was closed and production concentrated at the Heathhall, Dumfries factory of Arrol-Johnston....

     (1927-1931)
  • Arrol-Johnston
    Arrol-Johnston
    Arrol-Johnston was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain...

     (1896-1928)
  • Arsenal
    Arsenal (automobile)
    The Arsenal was an English car manufactured at St Albans, Hertfordshire from 1898 to 1899. The Bollée-like tricycle was reputed to be 3½hp. The manufacturer said the car had "practically the control of one of the largest and best-equipped plants of American Automotive Machinery." The...

     (1898-1899)
  • Ascari (1995-present)
  • Ascot
    Ascot (1904 automobile)
    The 1904 Ascot was an English automobile manufactured for one year only; its 3½hp engine was equipped with a "patented method for mechanically-controlling valves, doing away with useless pinions and calves.It had no connection with the 1928 Ascot car maker....

     (1904)
  • Ascot
    Ascot (1928 automobile)
    The Ascot was an English automobile, the brainchild of Cyril Pullin , that was manufactured between 1928 and 1930 in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The factory had previously been used by Phoenix. The car was based largely on the Hungarian Fejes, with chassis and 10hp engine assembled from welded steel...

     (1928-1930)
  • Ashley
    Ashley (automobile)
    Ashley were manufacturer of body shells and chassis for specials from 1955 to 1962. They also offered a range of products for special builders: radiators, header tanks, lighting sets, steel tubing, sheet aluminium, various suspension parts, water pumps, tires, tubes and wheels...

     (1954-1962)
  • Ashton-Evans
    Ashton-Evans
    The Ashton-Evans was an English car manufactured in Birmingham from 1919 to 1928 by an engineering company who also made railway locomotives and aircraft parts...

     (1919-1928)
  • Asquith
    Asquith (1901 automobile)
    The Asquith was a short-lived English automobile manufactured by a Halifax machine tool works from 1901 to 1902. The car originally had a front-mounted De Dion engine and belt-drive; this last was later replaced by a two-speed gearbox because the belts kept slipping disastrously. Probably only...

     (1901-1902)
  • Aster
    Aster (automobile)
    The Aster was an English automobile manufactured from 1922 to 1930. The companies car roots can be traced to 1899 when Begbie Manufacturing of Wembley, in north London became British licensees of the French Aster company making mainly stationary engines...

     (1922-1930)
  • Aston Martin
    Aston Martin
    Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...

    (1921-present)
  • Astra
    Astra (1954 automobile)
    The Astra was an English car built by a subsidiary of British Anzani of Hampton Hill, Middlesex from 1954 to 1959. At GBP348 it claimed to be the smallest and cheapest four wheeler on the British market...

     (1954-1959)
  • Astral
    Astral (1923 automobile)
    The Astral was a car built by Hertford Engineering Co Ltd, Barking, Essex, UK, from 1923 to 1924.Only one model was made, the 12/40 and although it was short-lived, it had many advanced features. The engine, made in-house, was a 1720 cc 4-cylinder with single overhead camshaft and the car had...

     (1923-1924)
  • Atalanta
    Atalanta (1915 automobile)
    The Atalanta was an English automobile manufactured in Greenwich, southeast London from 1915 to 1917. One of a number of light car companies to start business during the First World War, the Atalanta was one of the latest startups...

     (1915-1917)
  • Atalanta
    Atalanta (1937 automobile)
    The Atalanta was an English automobile manufactured from 1937 until 1939 by Atalanta Motors Ltd in Staines, Middlesex.Two models were made.The 1937 car used Albert Gough's somewhat erratic 4 cylinder overhead cam 1496 cc 78 bhp and 1996 cc 98 bhp engines with three valves and...

     (1937-1939)
  • Atlantis
    Atlantis
    Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

     (1981-1986)
  • Athmac
    Athmac
    The Athmac was a short-lived cyclecar was manufactured by Athmac Motor Company of Leyton, Essex in 1913. The friction-driven car, named 10/12, was propelled by a 1,110 cc four-cylinder engine. It featured final drive by long belts to the rear axle and was supposed to sell at 120 guineas, but...

     (1913)
  • Atkinson and Philipson
    Atkinson and Philipson (automobile)
    Atkinson & Philipson, of the Northumberland Coach Factory, Newcastle-on-Tyne, made a car in 1896. The Coach Factory had been in business since 1774, making mail coaches, then railway carriages for George Stephenson. In 1896 they produced a rather crude-looking steam brake with iron-shod wheels,...

     (1896)
  • Atomette
    Atomette
    thumb|rightThe Atomette was a British three wheeled cyclecar manufactured by Allan Thomas in Cleveland Street, Wolverhampton in 1922.The car was powered by an air-cooled 3.5 hp Villiers 2-stroke engine driving the single rear wheel through a three-speed gearbox. The body had no pretence of...

     (1922)
  • Attila
    Attila (automobile)
    The Attila was an English automobile produced from 1903 to 1906; the car, which was the creation of the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds, was a three-cylinder 20hp craft....

     (1903-1906)
  • Aurora
    Aurora
    Aurora most commonly refers to:*Aurora , a glow in the sky seen at polar latitudes*Aurora , the goddess of the dawn in Roman mythologyAurora may also refer to:-Literature:*Aurora , a superheroine in the Marvel Universe...

     (1904)
  • Ausfod
    Ausfod
    The Ausfod is an automobile manufactured by the Ausfod Motor Engineering Co Ltd in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester from 1947 to 1948. It was one of the few trials specials which was offered for sale to the public. It used a Ford Model C Ten engine, Austin Seven chassis, LMB trials front axle, and...

     (1947-1948)
  • Austin
    Austin Motor Company
    The Austin Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles. The company was founded in 1905 and merged in 1952 into the British Motor Corporation Ltd. The marque Austin was used until 1987...

     (1906-1989)
  • Austin-Healey
    Austin-Healey
    Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker. The marque was established through a joint-venture arrangement, set up in 1952 between Leonard Lord of the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation and the Donald Healey Motor Company, a renowned automotive engineering and design...

     (1952-1971)
  • Autotrix
    Autotrix
    The Autotrix was a British three-wheeled cyclecar manufactured by Edmunds and Wadden in Weybridge, Surrey between 1911 and 1914.Two versions of the car were advertised, both with air-cooled JAP engines. The smaller version had a 4 hp engine and belt drive and the larger a 9 hp unit and...

     (1911-1914)
  • Autocrat (1920s) (see Hampton
    Hampton (car)
    The Hampton was a British car made by the Hampton Engineering Company which was based in Kings Norton, Birmingham from 1912 to 1918 and at Dudbridge in Stroud, Gloucestershire from 1918 to 1933-Early history:...

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  • Autovia
    Autovia
    Autovia was a short lived brand of British car from Coventry existing from 1935 to 1938 with production starting in 1936. The venture was ambitious and even included setting up a school for chauffeurs. The cars were expensive and it was a market sector well served by other companies...

     (1936-1938)
  • AV
    AV (cyclecar)
    The AV was a British cyclecar manufactured by Ward and Avey in Somerset Road, Teddington Middlesex between 1919 and 1924.It was one of the more successful cyclecars and was based on a design bought from Carden and built in the factory that they had previously used...

     (1919-1924)
  • Baby Blake
    Baby Blake
    The Baby Blake was a British cyclecar manufactured by E.G. Blake in Croydon, Surrey in 1922.It was unusual in being powered by two separate two stroke engines driving friction discs. A third disc running between these and moveable backwards and forwards gave an infinitely variable drive to the rear...

     (1922)
  • Baker & Dale
    Baker & Dale
    The Baker & Dale was a British cyclecar manufactured in Southbourne, Sussex in 1913.The car was designed by a T.A. Hubert and used a twin cylinder engine of unknown make and belt drive to the rear axle....

     (1913)
  • Bantam
    Bantam (car)
    Not to be confused with American BantamThe Bantam was a British cyclecar manufactured by Slack and Harrison in Kegworth, Leicestershire in 1913....

     (1913)
  • Barnard
    Barnard (cyclecar)
    The Barnard was a British cyclecar manufactured by A Ward of Whitechapel Road, London, between 1921 and 1922.Two versions of the car were produced and advertised - a touring and a sports model. They were both powered by a 1169 cc straight four, aircooled, motorcycle engine by the American...

     (1921-1922)
  • Barnes (1904-1906)
  • Batten
    Batten (car)
    The Batten was a British car made in Beckenham, Kent between 1935 and 1938 based on the 1932 Ford Model 18 V-8. The cars were successfully campaigned in trials and racing events....

     (1935-1938)
  • Baughan
    Baughan
    Baughan was a British cyclecar and motorcycle manufacturer in business from 1920 until 1936. From 1920 until 1921 they were based in Harrow, Middlesex, then moving to Stroud, Gloucestershire. After motorcycle production finished the company continued in general engineering and plastics.Henry...

     (1920-1929)
  • Bayliss-Thomas
    Excelsior Motor Company
    Excelsior, based in Coventry, was a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker. They were Britain’s first motorcycle manufacturer, starting production of their own ‘motor-bicycle’ in 1896...

     (1922-1929)
  • Bean
    Bean cars
    Bean Cars were made in factories in Dudley, Worcestershire, and Coseley, Staffordshire, England, between 1919 and 1929.-Origins:The company traced its origins beck to two auto-industry component suppliers, A Harper and Sons and Bean Ltd., both based in England's Black Country...

     (1919-1929)
  • Belsize
    Belsize Motors
    Established in 1901, Belsize Motors was based in Clayton, Manchester, England. The company was founded by Marshall & Company and took its name from their Belsize works where they had built bicycles.-Marshall & Co:...

     (1901-1925)
  • Bentley (1919-present)
  • Berkeley
    Berkeley cars
    Berkeley Cars Ltd of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England produced small economical sporting microcars with motorcycle-derived engines from 322 cc to 692 cc and front wheel drive between 1956 and 1960.-History:...

     (1956-1961)
  • Berkeley
    Berkeley cars
    Berkeley Cars Ltd of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England produced small economical sporting microcars with motorcycle-derived engines from 322 cc to 692 cc and front wheel drive between 1956 and 1960.-History:...

    (1991-present)
  • Bifort
    Bifort
    The Bifort was a British automobile manufactured by the Bifort Motor Company in Fareham, Hampshire from 1914 until 1920. The 10hp light car was assembled from bought-in components mainly imported. The 1327 cc engine was from Belgium and the chassis was French...

     (1914-1920)
  • Billings-Burns
    Billings-Burns
    The Billings-Burns was an English automobile built only in 1900 in Coventry. This voiturette designed by E. D. Billings was powered by a  hp De Dion single-cylinder engine mounted in the open at the front of the car. The Burns part of the name came from its intended seller - a Mr. J. Burns...

     (1900)
  • Black Prince
    Black Prince (car)
    The Black Prince was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made in small numbers in 1920 by Black Prince Motors of Barnard Castle, Durham.The car was designed by H G Wright and was available with either a single or twin-cylinder Union air-cooled engine rated at 2.75 horse power...

     (1920)
  • Blériot-Whippet
    Blériot-Whippet
    The Blériot-Whippet was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made from 1920 to 1927 by the Air Navigation and Engineering Company based in Addlestone, Surrey....

     (1920-1927)
  • Bond
    Bond Cars Ltd
    Bond Cars Ltd was a British car maker. Initially called Sharps Commercials Ltd, it changed its name to Bond Cars Ltd in 1963. The company was taken over by the Reliant Motor Co Ltd of Tamworth, Staffs in 1970 who quickly closed the Preston factory, transferring the spare parts business for the...

     (1948-1974)
  • Bound
    Bound (car)
    The Bound was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made in 1920 by Bound Brothers of Southampton, England.The car had single seat bodywork and was very narrow. Power came from a single cylinder Precision engine rated at 3½ horsepower and drive was to the rear wheels via a friction transmission. Very few...

     (1920)
  • Bow-V-Car
    Bow-V-Car
    The Bow-V-Car was an English cyclecar manufactured from 1922 to 1923 by the Plycar Company of Upper Norwood, London. The car was designed by Charles Frederick Beauvais who was later better known as a stylist working for coachbuilders New Avon Body Company....

     (1922-1923)
  • BPD
    BPD (car)
    The BPD was a British 4-wheeled cyclecar made in 1913 by Brown, Paine and Dowland Ltd of Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.The car was powered by a JAP air-cooled, V twin engine rated at 8 hp and drive was to the rear wheels through a 2-speed gearbox and belts. It is not known if more than a prototype...

     (1913)
  • Bradwell
    Bradwell (car)
    The Bradwell was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made in 1914 by Bradwell & Company based in Folkestone, Kent.The car had a lightweight single seat body and was powered by a Precision, single cylinder, 3½ hp engine driving the rear wheels by belts. It cost GBP65 ....

     (1914)
  • Brotherhood (1904-1907)
  • Brough Superior
    Brough Superior
    Brough Superior motorcycles, sidecars, and motor cars were made by George Brough in his Brough Superior works on Haydn Road in Nottingham, England, from 1919 to 1940. They were dubbed the "Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles" by H. D. Teague of The Motor Cycle newspaper. Approximately 3,048 of 19 models...

     (1935-1939)
  • BSA
    Birmingham Small Arms Company
    This article is not about Gamo subsidiary BSA Guns Limited of Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B11 2PP or BSA Company or its successors....

     (1907-1926; 1929-1940)
  • Breckland Technology (2000-2009)
  • Bristol
    Bristol Cars
    Bristol Cars is a manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars headquartered in Patchway, near Bristol, United Kingdom. Bristol have always been a low-volume manufacturer; the most recent published official production figures were for 1982, which stated that 104 cars were produced in that year...

    (1946-present)
  • Britannia
    Britannia (cyclecar)
    The Britannia was a British 4-wheeled cyclecar made in 1913 and 1914 by Britannia Cars Ltd based in Ashwell, Hertfordshire.The car was powered by an air-cooled, two-cylinder, two-stroke engine driving the rear wheels by a four-speed gearbox and belts. It cost GBP85 ....

     (1913-1914)
  • British Salmson
    British Salmson
    British Salmson was a British based manufacturer of cars, from 1934 to 1939. An offshoot of the French Salmson company, it was taken over by local management...

     (1934-1939)
  • Broadway
    Broadway (cyclecar)
    The Broadway was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made only in 1913 by the Broadway Cyclecar Co of Coventry.The car was powered by an air-cooled, V twin, engine made by Fafnir driving the rear wheels by a two speed gearbox and belts. It cost GBP80....

     (1913)
  • Brooke (1901-1913)
  • Brooke (1991-present)
  • Buckingham
    Buckingham (automobile)
    The Buckingham was an English automobile manufactured by the Buckingham Engineering Company in Coventry from 1914 until 1923. The company had made cars under the Chota name from 1912....

     (1914-1923)
  • Buckler
    Buckler Cars
    The Buckler Cars company founded by Derek Buckler and based in Reading, Berkshire, England produced approximately 500 cars between 1947 and 1962...

     (1947-c.1962)
  • Burney
    Streamline Cars Ltd
    thumb|right|250px|Two versions were made; this one had a vestigial bonnetthumb|right|250px|The Streamline was not a small carStreamline Cars Ltd was the company responsible for making the Burney car designed by Dennis Burney....

     (1930-1933)
  • Bushbury Electric
    Bushbury Electric
    The Bushbury Electric was an English automobile manufactured by the Star Cycle Factory of Wolverhampton in 1897. An electric car, it came in three- and four-wheeled models, some of which were controlled by reins. Power was provided by two large three-speed electric motors placed under the seat;...

     (1897)
  • Calcott (1913-1926)
  • Calthorpe
    Calthorpe cars
    The Calthorpe Motor Company based in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England made a range of cars, motorcycles and bicycles from 1904 to 1932.-Formation:...

     (1905-1926)
  • Cambro
    Cambro (cyclecar)
    The Cambro was a very basic British three wheeled, single seat cyclecar made in 1920 and 1921 by the Central Aircraft Company of Northolt, Middlesex....

     (1920-1921)
  • Caparo
    Caparo Vehicle Technologies
    Caparo Vehicle Technologies , formerly known as Freestream, is a British company that provides advanced technology development, materials engineering, and design services to automotive, motorsport, and aerospace markets...

    (2006-present)
  • Carden
    Carden (cyclecar)
    The Carden was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made from 1914 by Carden Engineering originally based in Farnham, Surrey but moving in 1914 to Teddington, Middlesex and in 1919 to Ascot, Berkshire....

     (1912-1923)
  • Carlette
    Carlette
    The Carlette was a British cyclecar made in 1913 by the Holstein Garage of Weybridge, Surrey.The car was powered by an 8hp JAP V-twin engine. This was coupled to a countershaft by a rubber belt. Different "gear" ratios were available by moving the position of the belt with final drive by a further...

     (1913)
  • Castle Three
    Castle Three
    The Castle Three was a British three-wheeled cyclecar made from 1919 to 1922 by the Castle Motor Company of Castle Mill Works, New Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire...

     (1919-1922)
  • Caterham
    Caterham Cars
    Caterham Cars is a manufacturer of specialist lightweight sports cars based in Caterham, Surrey, England and part of the British motor industry. Their only current model, the Caterham 7 , is a direct evolution of the Series 3 Lotus Seven designed by Colin Chapman and originally launched in 1968. A...

    (1973-present)
  • CFB
    CFB (car)
    The CFB was a British four-wheeled cyclecar made between 1920 to 1921 by the CFB Car Syndicate Ltd of Upper Norwood, London. The company name stood for Charles Frederick Beauvais who later went on to build the Bow-V-Car and then joined coachbuilder New Avon Body Company designing bodies for...

     (1920-1921)
  • Centaur
    Concept Centaur GT
    The Concept Centaur GT was a kit car first built by Concept Cars Ltd of Middleton, Leicestershire, in 1973 and marketed from 1974 to 1977. The design was very much influenced by the Probe 15 from Adams Probe Motor. The car is famous for possibly being the lowest car ever made being only 94 cm ...

     (1974-1978)
  • Chambers Motors
    Chambers Motors
    Chambers Motors was the first automobile manufacturer in Ireland. The company built vehicles by hand featuring high-quality components designed and fabricated in-house. Passenger cars were made to suit doctors and wealthy businessmen, and commercial vehicles were produced for duty as delivery...

     (1904-1929)
  • Charawacky (1894-1914)
  • Chater-Lea
    Chater-Lea
    Chater-Lea was a British bicycle, car and motor cycle maker with a nine-storey factory in Banner Street in the City of London and, from 1928, premises at Letchworth, Hertfordshire. It was founded by William Chater-Lea in 1900 to make bicycle components. It made cars between 1907 and 1922 and...

     (1907-1922)
  • Chota
    Chota (automobile)
    The Chota was a 6 hp English cyclecar manufactured from 1912 until 1913 by the Buckingham Engine Works of Coventry.The car was designed by J. F. Buckingham and had a 746 cc single-cylinder engine of Buckingham's own design. A larger 1492 cc model was added in 1913.The Chota was...

     (1912-1913)
  • Christchurch-Campbell
    Christchurch-Campbell
    The Christchurch-Campbell was an English automobile manufactured only in 1922 by J Campbell Ltd of Christchurch, Hampshire. An assembled car, it had a 1436 cc 10-8hp Coventry-Simplex engine and Meadows gearbox...

     (1922)
  • Clan
    Clan (car)
    The Clan Crusader was a fibreglass monocoque British sports car based on running gear from the Hillman Imp Sport, including its Coventry Climax derived, rear-mounted 875 cc engine. It was first made in Washington, Co Durham, England, between 1971 and 1974, but since then several efforts have...

     (1971-1974)
  • Clan
    Clan (car)
    The Clan Crusader was a fibreglass monocoque British sports car based on running gear from the Hillman Imp Sport, including its Coventry Climax derived, rear-mounted 875 cc engine. It was first made in Washington, Co Durham, England, between 1971 and 1974, but since then several efforts have...

     (1982-1985)
  • Clarendon (1902-1904)
  • Climax (1905-1909)
  • Cluley (1921-1928)
  • Clyno
    Clyno
    Developing from a motorcycle manufacturer, the Clyno Engineering Company Ltd, founded by Frank Smith, became the surprise success of British car manufacturing in the 1920s becoming the country's third largest car manufacturer in 1926...

     (1922-1930)
  • Connaught (1952-59)
  • Connaught Motor Company
    Connaught Motor Company
    The Connaught Motor Company is a manufacturer of high performance cars. It is the sister company of engineering company Connaught Engineering. The concept was designed and then taken over by Jeff Matthews.Car Models:*Type-D Syracuse*Type-D Hybrid...

    (2004-present)
  • Coventry Premier
    Coventry Premier
    The Coventry Premier was a British car and cyclecar manufacturer based in Coventry from 1912 to 1923.The company can trace its origins back to 1876 when the Hillman and Herbert company was founded as bicycle makers. William Hillman went on to set up his own Hillman car company in 1907...

     (1912-1923)
  • Coventry-Victor
    Coventry-Victor
    Coventry-Victor was a British motorcycle and car manufacturer. OriginallyMorton & Weaver, a proprietary engine manufacturer in Hillfields, Coventry, founded in 1904, the company changed its name to Coventry-Victor in 1911...

     (1926-1938)
  • Crossley
    Crossley Motors
    Crossley Motors was a British motor vehicle manufacturer based in Manchester, England. They produced approximately 19,000 high quality cars from 1904 until 1938, 5,500 buses from 1926 until 1958 and 21,000 goods and military vehicles from 1914 to 1945.Crossley Brothers, originally...

     (1904-1937)
  • Crouch
    Crouch Cars
    Crouch Cars was a company founded by JWF Crouch in Coventry, England in 1912 which manufactured cars until 1928. It was located at first in Bishop Street moving in 1914 to Cook Street....

     (1912-1928)
  • Crowdy (1909-1912)
  • Croxted
    Croxted
    The Croxted was an English automobile built from 1904 to 1905 in Herne Hill, South London. The cars were available with either a 10hp engine or a power unit of 14hp and four cylinders....

     (1904-1905)
  • Daimler
    Daimler Motor Company
    The Daimler Motor Company Limited was an independent British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in London by H J Lawson in 1896, which set up its manufacturing base in Coventry. The right to the use of the name Daimler had been purchased simultaneously from Gottlieb Daimler and Daimler Motoren...

    (1896-present)
  • Dalgliesh-Gullane (1907-1908)
  • Dawson
    Dawson Car Company
    Dawson Car Company was created in June 1918 by AJ Dawson, previously works manager at Hillman and designer of the 1913 Hillman Nine car and launched in 1919....

     (1919-1921)
  • Deasy (1906-1911)
  • Dellow
    Dellow
    Dellow cars were made in a factory at Alvechurch, near Birmingham, England between 1949 and 1956.Dellow Motors Ltd was started by Ken Delingpole and Ron Lowe to produce road-going sports cars for the enthusiast to use in trials, rallies and hill-climbs....

     (1949-1959)
  • De Lorean
    De Lorean Motor Company
    The original DeLorean Motor Company was a short-lived automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John DeLorean in 1975. It is remembered for the one model it produced — the distinctive stainless steel DeLorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors — and for its brief and...

     (1981-1982)
  • Diva
    Diva (car manufacturer)
    Diva was a British manufacturer of sports cars from 1961 to 1966. It was a subsidiary of the Tunex Conversions Co set up by Don Sim in Camberwell, London but in 1966 Diva Cars Limited became its registered name...

     (1961-1966)
  • Eadie (1898-1901)
  • Economic
    Economic (Cyclecar)
    The Economic was a British three-wheeled cyclecar made from 1919 to 1922 by Economic Motors of Wells Street, London, W1. It was, at £60, almost certainly the cheapest car on the British market at the time....

     (1921-1922)
  • Edismith
    Edismith
    The Edismith was an English automobile manufactured only in 1905. Built by Edmund Smith of the Circus Garage in Blackburn, Lancashire, they came with either Tony Huber or De Dion power units....

     (1905)
  • Enfield
    Enfield Automotive
    Enfield Automotive was an electric car manufacturer founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Under the ownership of Greek millionaire Giannis Goulandris, production was moved to the Greek isle of Syros during the oil crisis of 1973.-Enfield 465:...

     (1969-1973)
  • Ekstromer
    Ekstromer
    The Ekstromer was an English electric car manufactured only in 1905. Produced by a battery manufacturer, it came in a range of models, including a light two-seater which was said to have a 100-mile range....

     (1905)
  • Electric Motive Power
    Electric Motive Power
    The Electric Motive Power was an English electric car manufactured in 1897. A heavy phaeton, it was capable of running on one charge.-References:David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles....

     (1897)
  • Electromobile
    Electromobile
    The Electromobile was an English electric car manufactured from 1901 until 1920. The product of a London company, it was offered as part of a contract hire scheme as early as 1904. From 1903 the engine was mounted on the rear axle. The design of the car changed little until after World War I; in...

     (1901-1920)
  • Elswick
    Elswick (automobile)
    The Elswick was an English automobile produced in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1903 until 1907.It was a car built mainly from bought-in parts. The front featured a round radiator....

     (1903-1907)
  • Elva
    Elva (car manufacturer)
    Elva was a sports and racing car manufacturing company based in Bexhill, then Hastings and Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1955 by Frank G. Nichols. The name comes from the French phrase elle va .-Racing cars:...

     (1958-1968)
  • Emms (1922-1923)
  • Endurance (1899-1901)
  • Esculapeus
    Esculapeus
    The Esculapeus was a British automobile manufactured for one year only, 1902. A "chainless" voiturette, it had a five horsepower twin engine. Befitting its name, the car was designed for doctors, and came complete with a locker for their bags, as well as full weather protection.-References:David...

     (1902)
  • Eterniti Motors
    Eterniti Motors
    Eterniti Motors is a new British car company based in London and unveiled its first car, the Hemera, at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show.-Models:...

     (2010-present)
  • Evante
    Evante
    The Evante is an English automobile which began production in 1987 in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Engine tuning company Vegantune had been restoring Lotus Elan cars and making some improvements to them...

     (1983-1994)
  • Fairthorpe
    Fairthorpe Cars
    Fairthorpe cars were made in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England between 1954 and 1976.Fairthorpe Ltd was founded by Air Vice Marshall Donald Bennett. The first cars were lightweight models powered by motor cycle engines and with glass fibre bodies called the Atom and Atomota. In 1956 a...

     (1954-1973)
  • Farboud (2004-present)
  • Frazer Nash
    Frazer Nash
    Frazer Nash was a British sports car manufacturer and engineering company founded by Archibald Frazer-Nash in 1922. It produced sports cars incorporating a unique multi-chain transmission before World War II and also imported BMW cars to the UK. After the war it continued producing sports cars with...

     (1924-1957)
  • ford* (1898-present)
  • Galloway
    Galloway (car)
    Galloway was a British car maker founded in 1920 as a subsidiary company to Arrol-Johnston. It was based at first at Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire, and from 1923 at Heathall, Dumfries. It closed in 1928.-History:...

     (1920-1928)
  • Garrard
    Garrard (automobile)
    The Garrard was an English automobile manufactured only in 1904. From the company which produced the Clément-Garrard motorcycle, it was described as a "Suspended Tri-car".-References:*David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles...

     (1904)
  • Garrard & Blumfield
    Garrard & Blumfield
    The Garrard & Blumfield was an English electric car manufactured from 1894 to 1896. "Neat and well-fitted", it was built in Coventry.-References:David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles...

     (1894-1896)
  • Geering (1899-1904)
  • Gerald (1920)
  • Aquada
    Gibbs Aquada
    The Gibbs Aquada is a high speed amphibious vehicle developed by Gibbs Technologies, an Alan Gibbs company. It is capable of speeds over 160 km/h on land and 50 km/h on water...

     (2004-present)
  • Gibbons
    Gibbons (automobile)
    The Gibbons was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made from 1917 to 1929 by engineering pattern makers Gibbons and Moore of Chadwell Heath, Essex. The first car was made in 1914 but production did not start until 1917...

     (1917-1929)
  • Gilbern
    Gilbern
    Gilbern cars were made in Llantwit Fardre, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales between 1959 and 1973.Gilbern Sports Cars Ltd was founded by Giles Smith, a butcher, and Bernard Friese, a German engineer with experience in glass fibre mouldings, and was one of the few cars to be made in Wales...

     (1959-1973)
  • Gilbert
    Ralph Gilbert & Son
    Ralph Gilbert & Son was a light car manufacturer based in Birmingham, England in 1901.The light cars were fitted with Gilbert's own single cylinder two stroke 3.5 hp engine with chain drive to the rear wheels....

     (1901)
  • Gilburt
    Gilburt
    The Gilburt was an English automobile manufactured from 1904 to 1905 in Kilburn, London. It was a two or three seater light car with a 6 hp twin-cylinder engine from Fafnir and used a tubular chassis and chain drive....

     (1904-1905)
  • Gill (1958-1960)
  • Ginetta
    Ginetta Cars
    Ginetta Cars is a Garforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire based British specialist builder of racing and sports cars.-20th century:Ginetta was founded in 1958 by the four Walklett brothers in Woodbridge, Suffolk...

    (1957-present)
  • GN
    GN (car)
    thumb|right|200px|Richard Scaldwell's JAP-engined GN Grand Prix special at the VSCC SeeRed race meeting, Donington Park, September 2007. The GN has a 5.1 litre V8 aero-engine shoehorned into its lightweight cyclecar frame....

     (1910-1925)
  • Godfrey-Proctor (1928-1929)
  • Gordon-Keeble
    Gordon-Keeble
    Gordon-Keeble was a British car marque, made first in Slough, then Eastleigh, and finally in Southampton , between 1963 and 1967. The marque's badge was unusual in featuring a tortoise — a pet tortoise walked into the frame of an inaugural photo-shoot, taken in the grounds of the makers...

     (1960-1961; 1964-1967)
  • Grinnall (1993-present)
  • Grose
    Grose
    The Grose was an English automobile built between 1898 and 1901. From Northampton, it was another version of the Benz. Six were made.The company later concentrated on coachbuilding, making car bodies until 1929 and commercial ones until 1959....

     (1898-1901)
  • Guy
    Guy Motors
    Guy Motors was a British company based in Fallings Park, Wolverhampton that made cars, lorries, buses, and trolleybuses.-History:Guy Motors Ltd was founded in 1914 by Sydney Guy who had been the Works Manager of nearby Sunbeam. A factory was built on the site at Fallings Park, Wolverhampton...

     (ca1919-1932)
  • GWK
    GWK (car)
    The GWK was a British car made in Maidenhead, Berkshire, between 1911 and 1931. It got its name from its founders, Arthur Grice, J Talfourd Wood and C.M. Keiller. The cars were unusual in using a friction drive system....

     (1911-1931)
  • Gwynne
    Gwynne (car)
    Gwynne was an old established engineering company based in Chiswick, London, that made cars between 1922 and 1929. It was set up by Nevile Gwynne, brother of Rupert and Roland Gwynne....

     (1922-1929)
  • Gwynne-Albert (1923-1929)
  • Hampton
    Hampton (car)
    The Hampton was a British car made by the Hampton Engineering Company which was based in Kings Norton, Birmingham from 1912 to 1918 and at Dudbridge in Stroud, Gloucestershire from 1918 to 1933-Early history:...

     (1911-1933)
  • Healey
    Donald Healey Motor Company
    -History:It was formed in 1945 by Donald Healey, a renowned auto engineer and successful racing driver. It was formed after Healey discussed sports car design with Achille Sampietro, a chassis specialist for high performance cars and Ben Bowden, a body engineer, when all three worked at Humber...

     (1946-1954)
  • Hewinson-Bell
    Hewinson-Bell
    The Hewinson-Bell was an English automobile manufactured around 1900. Six crude vehicles, apparently copied from Benzes, seem to have been built in the area of Southampton....

     (c.1900)
  • Hill & Stanier
    Hill & Stanier
    The Hill & Stanier was an English automobile, a 6 hp cyclecar with a V twin, air-cooled engine. Drive was to the rear wheels by belt to a countershaft and then by chain to the wheels....

     (1914)
  • Hillman
    Hillman
    Hillman is a British automobile marque created by the Hillman Motor Car Company, founded in 1907. The company was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles...

     (1907-1976)
  • Horstmann Cars (1914-1929)
  • HRG
    HRG Engineering Company
    HRG Engineering Company also known as HRG, was a British car manufacturer based in Tolworth, Surrey. Founded in 1936 by Major Edward Halford, Guy Robins and Henry Ronald Godfrey, it took its name from the first letter of their surnames....

     (1936-1956)
  • Hubbard (1904-1905)
  • Humber
    Humber (car)
    Humber is a dormant British automobile marque which could date its beginnings to Thomas Humber's bicycle company founded in 1868. Following their involvement in Humber through Hillman in 1928 the Rootes brothers acquired a controlling interest and joined the Humber board in 1932 making Humber part...

     (1896-1976)
  • Iden
    Iden
    For other uses of the word, see Iden The Iden was an English automobile manufactured from 1904 until 1907. Designed by George Iden, formerly of Daimler, they were four-cylinder 10/17 hp and 25/35 hp shaft-driven cars; each came with "Idens's frictionless radial gearbox"....

     (1904-1907)
  • Imperial
    Imperial (car)
    This article is about the Imperial marque used by British manufacturers in the early 20th century. For the marque used by U.S. auto maker Chrysler, see Imperial .Imperial was the name used for three separate makes of British car....

     (1901-c.1906)
  • Imperial
    Imperial (car)
    This article is about the Imperial marque used by British manufacturers in the early 20th century. For the marque used by U.S. auto maker Chrysler, see Imperial .Imperial was the name used for three separate makes of British car....

     (1904-1905)
  • Imperial
    Imperial (car)
    This article is about the Imperial marque used by British manufacturers in the early 20th century. For the marque used by U.S. auto maker Chrysler, see Imperial .Imperial was the name used for three separate makes of British car....

     (1914)
  • Invacar
    Thundersley Invacar
    The AC/Thundersley Invacar was a small car specially adapted for use by disabled drivers.- History :In 1948, Bert Greeves adapted a motorbike with the help of his paralysed cousin Derry Preston-Cobb as transport for Derry...

     (1947-1977)
  • Invicta (1900-1905)
  • Invicta (1913-1914)
  • Invicta
    Invicta (car)
    Invicta is a British automobile manufacturer. The brand has been available intermittently through successive decades. Initially, the manufacturer was based in Cobham, Surrey, England from 1925 to 1933, then in Chelsea, London, England from 1933 to 1938 and finally in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...

     (1925-1950)
  • Invicta (2004-present)
  • Jaguar
    Jaguar (car)
    Jaguar Cars Ltd, known simply as Jaguar , is a British luxury car manufacturer, headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, England. It is part of the Jaguar Land Rover business, a subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors....

    (1945-present)
  • James and Browne
    James and Browne
    James & Browne were a Great Britain automobile manufacturers, based in Hammersmith, London between 1898 and 1910.The James & Browne factory was located at the Chiswick end of King's Street in West London, and there was a car showroom on Oxford Street....

     (1901-1910)
  • Jappic
    Jappic
    First entered at Brooklands on the Easter Monday meeting of 1925, this tiny two seater cyclecar had a 344cc JAP motorcycle engine. The car was designed by H.M.Walters and built by the coachbuilders Jarvis of Wimbledon. The frame was made from the wood ash with 3/32 inch steel flitch plates and...

     (1925)
  • Jensen
    Jensen Motors
    Jensen Motors Ltd was a British manufacturer of sports cars and commercial vehicles, based in the Lyng – West Bromwich...

     (1936-1976; 1983-1992; 1999-2002)
  • Jensen-Healey
    Jensen-Healey
    The Jensen-Healey is a two-seater convertible sports car that was originally produced between 1972 and 1976 by Jensen Motors, Ltd. Roughly 10,000 were produced at West Bromwich, England. A related fastback, the Jensen GT was introduced in 1975.-Design:...

     (1972-1976)
  • Joel-Rosenthal
    Joel-Rosenthal
    The Joel-Rosenthal was an English electric car manufactured from 1899 until around 1902. Designed by Henry M Joel and London-built, the car had a separate 2 hp engine with chain drive for each rear wheel....

     (1899-c.1902)
  • John O'Gaunt (1901-1904)
  • Jowett
    Jowett
    Jowett was a manufacturer of light cars and light commercial vehicles in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England from 1906 to 1954.-Early history:Jowett was founded in 1901 by brothers Benjamin and William Jowett with Arthur V Lamb. They started in the cycle business and went on to make V-twin engines...

     (1906-1954)
  • JZR
    JZR Trikes
    JZR Trikes is a UK producer of traditionally-styled, motorcycle-engined trikes in kit form.-History:From their workshop in Darwen, Lancashire, John Ziemba Restorations began to market the JZR in 1990. Some 320 JZR's were produced up until 1998 when there was a production hiatus until 2000...

    (1989-1998, 2000-present)
  • Karminski
    Karminski
    The Karminski was an English automobile manufactured only in 1902. The product of a concern from Bradford, the bonnet of the 7 hp car came to a "torpedo point". In 1902 the company claimed that it was unable to supply the similar 12 hp model "owing to a contract by a Russian firm for a great...

     (1902)
  • Kieft
    Kieft Cars
    Kieft Cars founded by Cyril Kieft was a British car company that built Formula Three racing cars and some road going sports cars in a factory in Derry St, Wolverhampton.Cyril Kieft was born in Swansea and spent his early working life in the steel industry...

     (1954-1955)
  • Kingsburgh (1901-1902)
  • Kyma
    Kyma (automobile)
    The Kyma was an English automobile manufactured from 1903 to 1905. Built by the New Kyma Car Company of Peckham, it came in twin-cylinder models of three and four wheels....

     (1903-1905)
  • LAD
    LAD (car)
    The LAD was a British cyclecar made between 1913 and 1926.The car was originally made by the Oakleigh Motor Company of West Dulwich, London and was usually fitted with a single seater body although a few two seaters were made. Power came from a single cylinder Stag engine and drive was to the rear...

     (1913-1926)
  • Ladas (1906)
  • Lagonda
    Lagonda
    Lagonda is a British luxury car marque, founded as a company in 1906 in Staines, Middlesex by a former opera singer from Ohio, but of Scottish ancestry, named Wilbur Gunn . He named the company after a river near the town of his birth, Springfield, Ohio, United States...

     (1906-1964)
  • Lambert
    Lambert (cyclecar)
    The Lambert was a British 3 wheeled cyclecar made between 1911 and 1912 by Lambert's Carriage, Cycle and Motor Works of Thetford, Norfolk.The car was powered by an 8 hp JAP engine mounted at the front and driving the single rear wheel by chain via a three speed gearbox. It was fitted with an...

     (1911-1912)
  • Lammas-Graham
    Lammas Limited
    Lammas Limited was a manufacturer of motor cars from 1936 to 1938 based in Sunbury-on-Thames, UK. Their cars were built on a chassis bought in from Graham in the United States, the cars being known as Lammas-Graham...

     (1936-1938)
  • Lanchester
    Lanchester Motor Company
    The Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a car manufacturer based until 1930 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England. It operated from 1895 to 1955....

     (1895-1956)
  • Land Master
    Land Master
    The Land Master is a civilian all-terrain utility vehicle produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a competitor to the Land Rover. Many of its features were incorporated into the Land Rover Defender introduced some years later....

     (1970s-1980s)
  • Land Rover
    Land Rover
    Land Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles. It is owned by the Indian company Tata Motors, forming part of their Jaguar Land Rover group...

    (1948-present)
  • Lea-Francis
    Lea-Francis
    Lea-Francis was a motor manufacturing company that began life building bicycles.- History :Richard Henry Lea and Graham Inglesby Francis started the business in Coventry in 1895. They branched out into car manufacture in 1903 and motor cycles in 1911. Lea-Francis built cars, under licence, for the...

    (1903-1906; 1920-1935; 1937-1952; 1980-present)
  • Lee Stroyer
    Lee Stroyer
    Lee Stroyer was a British petrol engine manufacturing company and a producer of a limited number of cars.Founded in East Street, Coventry in 1903 by H...

     (1903-1905)
  • Lems
    Lems
    The Lems was an English electric car manufactured by the London Electromobile Syndicate in London from 1903 to 1904. The two-seater runabout claimed to run on a single charge and reach a top speed of 12 mph . It was sold for 180 guineas....

     (1903-1904)
  • Lester Solus
    Lester Solus
    The Lester Solus was an English automobile built in Shepherd's Bush, London only in 1913. A single-seat cyclecar, it ran on an 8 hp JAP or Precision V-twin engine with friction drive and belts to the rear wheels....

     (1913)
  • Leuchters
    Leuchters
    The Leuchters was an English automobile produced in 1898. A motor tricycle similar to the De Dion, it was advertised as being "made entirely in Leeds"....

     (1898)
  • Leyland (1920-1923)
  • Light Car Company/LCC
  • Lister (1954-1959; 1986-present)
  • Lloyd
    Lloyd cars
    Lloyd cars was a British motor manufacturer, founded by Roland Lloyd , son of a garage owner, and based in Patrick Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England between 1936 and 1951. Two models were made, separated by World War II; the company was unusual for a small manufacturer in making nearly all...

     (1936-1950)
  • Locost
    Locost
    A Locost is a home-built clone of the Lotus Seven. The car features a space frame chassis usually welded together from mild steel square tubing. Front suspension is usually double wishbone with coil overs. The rear is traditionally live axle, but has many variants including independent rear...

    (1995-present)
  • Lonsdale
    Lonsdale (car)
    Lonsdale was a marque of car sold in the United Kingdom by Mitsubishi Motors between 1982 and 1983. It took its name from the industrial suburb of Lonsdale in Adelaide, South Australia where Mitsubishi Australia had an engine production facility. The only car sold under this brand was the Lonsdale,...

     (1982-1983)
  • Lotis (1908-1912)
  • Lotus
    Lotus Cars
    Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics...

    (1951-present)
  • Lucar
    Lucar
    The Lucar was an English automobile manufactured in Brixton, London, from 1913 until 1914; a 1094 cc light car, it featured electric lamps.Lucar is also the generic name for a range of automotive electrical connectors which are physically crimped onto the cable....

     (1913-14)
  • Madelvic
    Madelvic Motor Carriage Company
    The Madelvic Motor Carriage Company of Granton, Scotland, was an early car manufacturing company.The company was founded by William Peck, Edinburgh City Astronomer at the City Observatory, to develop the emerging technology of electricity. Madelvic produced an 'electric brougham' at their factory...

     (1898-1900)
  • Maiflower
    Maiflower
    The Maiflower was an English automobile manufactured from 1919 until 1921 in Gloucester. Named for its builders, army captains M. Price and A. I. Flower, the car was based on the Model T Ford, although a newly fabricated rear end and alterations to the front transverse suspension provided...

     (1919-1921)
  • Marauder
    Marauder Cars
    thumb|right|270px|1951 Marauder TourerMarauder Cars was a British car company founded by Rover engineers George Mackie and Peter Wilks. Peter Wilks and George Mackie left the Rover Company in 1950 to form Wilks, Mackie and Company to exploit their idea of a two-seater sports car based on the new...

     (1950-1952)
  • Marcos
    Marcos (automobile)
    Marcos was a British sports car manufacturer. The name was a combination of founders Jem Marsh and Frank Costin.-History:Marcos was founded in Luton, in Bedfordshire, England, in 1959 by Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. Frank Costin had earlier worked on the De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bombers and...

     (1959-2007)
  • Marendaz
    Marendaz
    Marendaz Special cars were made in Brixton Road, London SW9, England from 1926 to 1932 and in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England from 1932 to 1936.DMK Marendaz served as an apprentice at Siddeley-Deasy before the first World War...

     (1926-1936)
  • Marlborough
    Marlborough (automobile)
    Marlborough is a make of car built in Blenheim, New Zealand. The first one was constructed by John North Birch between 1912 and 1919. It was a touring car, had a four cylinder engine with a four-inch bore and seven-inch stroke, five main bearings, and full force feed lubrication. Valves were two...

     (1906-1926)
  • Maudslay
    Maudslay Motor Company
    The Maudslay Motor Company was a British vehicle maker based in Coventry. It was founded in 1902 and continued until 1948 when it was taken over by the Associated Equipment Company and along with Crossley Motors the new group was renamed Associated Commercial Vehicles Ltd.-Early history:The...

     (1902-1923)
  • McLaren
    McLaren Automotive
    McLaren Automotive, commonly referred to as McLaren, is a British automotive manufacturer of high-performance vehicles. The company was established as McLaren Cars in 1989 as a producer of road cars based on Formula One technology...

    (1969-1970; 1993-1998; 2005-Present)
  • MG (1923-present)
  • Mini
    Mini
    The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...

     (1959-2000)
  • MINI
    MINI (BMW)
    Mini is a British automotive marque owned by BMW which specialises in small cars.Mini originated as a specific vehicle, a small car originally known as the Morris Mini-Minor and the Austin Seven, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and developed into a brand encompassing a range of...

    (2001-present)
  • MK Indy
    MK Indy
    The MK Indy is a Lotus 7 replica based on the Locost principle, built by MK Sportscars in Maltby, Rotherham. The Indy has an independent rear suspension using the differential and drive shafts from a Ford Sierra. It uses many other components from the Sierra, including front hubs and steering rack...

    (1996-present)
  • Morgan
    Morgan Motor Company
    The Morgan Motor Company is a British motor car manufacturer. The company was founded in 1910 by Harry Frederick Stanley Morgan, generally known as "HFS" and was run by him until he died, aged 77, in 1959. Peter Morgan, son of H.F.S., ran the company until a few years before his death in 2003...

    (1910-present)
  • Morris
    Morris Motor Company
    The Morris Motor Company was a British car manufacturing company. After the incorporation of the company into larger corporations, the Morris name remained in use as a marque until 1984 when British Leyland's Austin Rover Group decided to concentrate on the more popular Austin marque...

     (1913-1983)
  • Motor Carrier
    Motor Carrier
    The Motor Carrier was an English automobile built only in 1904. Designed as a 6 hp "pleasure car", it could be converted into a goods vehicle capable of carrying 900 lb ....

     (1904)
  • Napier
    Napier & Son
    D. Napier & Son Limited was a British engine and pre-Great War automobile manufacturer and one of the most important aircraft engine manufacturers in the early to mid-20th century...

     (c.1900-1924)
  • Napoleon (1903)
  • Neale (electric car)
    Neale (electric car)
    The Neale electric car was made in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1897 by Douglas Neale. The car was described as electrically driven, with a range of speed from 3 to 12 miles per hour. Only a limited number of these vehicles were made and none survive....

     (1896)
  • New Carden
    Carden (cyclecar)
    The Carden was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made from 1914 by Carden Engineering originally based in Farnham, Surrey but moving in 1914 to Teddington, Middlesex and in 1919 to Ascot, Berkshire....

     (1923-1925)
  • Noble (1998-present)
  • Nova
    Automotive Design and Development
    Automotive Design and Development Ltd was an English company that was responsible for the creation of the futuristic-looking Nova kit car. The company was based in Southampton from 1971 to 1973 after which it moved to Accrington, Lancashire until 1975...

    (1971-present)
  • Ogle
    Ogle Design
    Ogle Design is a British design consultancy company, founded in 1954 by David Ogle, based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.-History:* 1954 Ogle Design was founded and produced many successful designs of industrial and household products....

     (1960-1972)
  • Omega (1925-1927)
  • One of the Best
    One of the Best
    The One of the Best was a British automobile built in 1905. A 9 hp light car, it was the product of a jack manufacturer named Adams from Tunbridge Wells who had previously made petrol engine conversions for horse drawn vehicles....

     (1905)
  • Oppermann
    Oppermann Automobiles
    Carl Oppermann produced electric cars under his own name from 1898 to 1902, and through Carl Oppermann Electric Carriage Co. Ltd. from 1902 to 1907. His firm made its own batteries to power a variety of vehicles mostly having open body styles, and produced a number of electric taxis. The King of...

     (1898-1907)
  • Palm
    Palmerston (car)
    The Palmerston was a British car made by the Palmerston Motor Company based in Bournemouth, England between 1920 and 1923.The company was founded by the three Bullock brothers who were trading as motor engineers in 1919...

     (1922-1923)
  • Palmerston
    Palmerston (car)
    The Palmerston was a British car made by the Palmerston Motor Company based in Bournemouth, England between 1920 and 1923.The company was founded by the three Bullock brothers who were trading as motor engineers in 1919...

     (1920-1922)
  • Panther
    Panther Westwinds
    Panther Westwinds was a manufacturer of niche sports cars and luxury cars, based in Surrey, United Kingdom. Founded in 1972 by Robert Jankel, the Panther company enjoyed success throughout the 1970s with retro-styled cars based on the mechanical components of standard production cars from other...

     (1972-1992)
  • Paramount
    Paramount Cars
    Paramount Cars was a British car made between 1950 and 1956. It was initially manufactured in Swadlincote, moving shortly after to Melbourne and then to Leighton Buzzard.- Paramount Cars History :...

     (1950-1956)
  • Paydell
    Paydell
    The Paydell was an English automobile manufactured from 1924 until 1925. From Hendon, it was powered by a 13-9 hp Meadows four....

     (1924-1925)
  • Payze
    Payze
    The Payze was an English automobile manufactured at Cookham, Berkshire from 1920 until 1921. The car, which cost £450 in 1920, ran on a 10 hp Coventry-Simplex engine....

     (1920-1921)
  • Peel
    Peel Engineering Company
    The Peel Engineering Company is a manufacturing company based on the Isle of Man that primarily made fibreglass boats as well as fairings for motorcycles. They were also responsible for the Peel Manxcar, Peel P50, and Peel Trident microcars, in addition to the Peel Viking Sport and prototype GRP...

     (1955-1966)
  • Peerless (1957-1960)
  • Perry
    Perry (car)
    The Perry was a British car made by the Perry Motor Company based in Tyseley, Birmingham who made cars between 1913 and 1916.The company can trace its roots back to 1824 with James and Stephen Perry making pens in a workshop in London, later moving to Birmingham and building bicycles...

     (1913-1916)
  • Phoenix (1903-1926)
  • Phoenix
    Alexandra (1905 automobile)
    The Alexandra was an all-wooden bodied electric brougham made by the Phoenix Carriage Co of Birmingham from 1905 to 1906. It included a safety device found in hansom cabs to stop passengers from falling out of the vehicle in the event of a sudden halt. A petrol-engine vehicle was also listed for...

     (1905)
  • Piper
    Piper Cars
    Piper Cars was a United Kingdom manufacturer of specialist sports cars...

     (1967-1975)
  • Prodrive
    Prodrive
    Prodrive is a British motorsport and automotive engineering group based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. It designs, constructs and races cars for companies and teams such as Subaru, Aston Martin and Ford...

    (1984-present)
  • Projecta
    Projecta
    The Projecta was an English automobile manufactured only in 1914 at the Percival White Engineering Works, Highbury, London. A monocoque-bodied two seat cyclecar, it was powered by a vee-twin JAP engine with two speed gearbox and belt drive to the rear wheels....

     (1914)
  • Quadrant (1905-1906)
  • Quasar-Unipower
    Quasar-Unipower
    The Quasar-Unipower was a box-like car produced in limited numbers between 1967 and 1968 by Universal Power Drives of Perivale, Middlesex, England who also made the Unipower sports car. The car was designed by Quasar Khanh a French-Vietnamese designer and engineer.The car had a unique appearance,...

     (1968)
  • Queen
    Queen (English automobile)
    The Queen was an English automobile produced from 1904 to 1905. "The car for the million or the millionaire", it was sold by Horner & Sons of Mitre Square, London. Models of 12 and 16 hp were offered; prices ranged from 235 guineas to 275 guineas....

     (1904-1905)
  • Radical (1997-present)
  • Railton
    Railton (car)
    Railton was a British car maker based in Cobham, Surrey between 1933 and 1940. There was an attempt to revive the marque by a new company between 1989 and 1994 in Alcester, Warwickshire....

     (1933-1950)
  • Railton
    Railton (car)
    Railton was a British car maker based in Cobham, Surrey between 1933 and 1940. There was an attempt to revive the marque by a new company between 1989 and 1994 in Alcester, Warwickshire....

     (1989-1994)
  • Ralph Lucas
    Ralph Lucas
    The Ralph Lucas was an English automobile manufactured by its namesake from 1901 until around 1908. The first model was an odd two-stroke car powered by paraffin; it had a piston and a crankshaft at either end of its one cylinder. A button in the steering wheel controlled the speed of the engine....

     (1901-c.1908)
  • Rapier
    Lagonda Rapier
    The Lagonda Rapier was a small car produced by the British Lagonda company from 1934 to 1935. A few more were subsequently produced by the independent Rapier Car Company....

     (1933-1937)
  • Reliant
    Reliant
    Reliant was a British car manufacturer. The company was traditionally based at Tamworth in Staffordshire, England, but in 2001 it moved to nearby Cannock. It ceased manufacturing cars shortly afterwards.-History:...

     (1952-2002)
  • Rex (1901-1914)
  • Rickett
    Rickett (car)
    Thomas Rickett from Buckingham, England, made a steam powered car in 1860. Several examples made and it was also advertised.Rickett was manager of the Castle Foundry in Buckingham, makers of agricultural implements, who in 1857 also started to make steam engines. In 1858 he combined the two to...

     (1858-1860)
  • Ridley (1901-1907)
  • Riley (1898-1969)
  • Rochdale
    Rochdale (car)
    Rochdale cars were a series of mainly glass fibre bodied British sports car made by Rochdale Motor Panels and Engineering in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England between 1948 and 1973...

     (1952-1968)
  • Rodley
    Rodley
    The Rodley was a British microcar designed by Henry Brown and built by the Rodley Automobile Company in Leeds between 1954 and 1956.The body was of steel construction, rather than the more usual glass fibre, and was mounted on a steel chassis...

     (1954-1956)
  • Rolls-Royce
    Rolls-Royce Motors
    Rolls-Royce Motors was created from the de-merger of the Rolls-Royce car business from Rolls-Royce Limited in 1973. The original Rolls-Royce Limited had been nationalised in 1971 due to the financial collapse of the company, caused in part by the development of the RB211 jet engine...

    (1904-present)
  • Roper-Corbet
    Roper-Corbet
    The Roper-Corbet was an English automobile manufactured from 1911 until 1913 and sold by the London and Parisian Motor Co Ltd. Its maker is not known. A four-cylinder, 2412 cc 14/16 hp model was exhibited at the London motor show in 1911. It was advertised for £350 complete....

     (1911-1913)
  • Rover
    Rover (car)
    The Rover Company is a former British car manufacturing company founded as Starley & Sutton Co. of Coventry in 1878. After developing the template for the modern bicycle with its Rover Safety Bicycle of 1885, the company moved into the automotive industry...

     (1904-2005)
  • Rudge (1912-1913)
  • Russon
    Russon
    The Russon was a British microcar with a sporting appearance and built by Russon Cars Ltd in Eaton Bray, Stanbridge, Bedfordshire between 1951 and 1952....

     (1951-1952)
  • Ruston-Hornsby
    Ruston (engine builder)
    Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840. The company is best known as a manufacturer of narrow and standard gauge diesel locomotives and also of steam shovels. Other products included cars, steam...

     (1919-1924)
  • Ryley (1901-1902)
  • Rytecraft
    Rytecraft
    The Rytecraft Scootacar was a British microcar built by the British Motorboat Manufacturing Company in London between 1934 and 1940. The company later changed its name to BMB Engineering. It is possible that some might have been assembled after 1945....

     (1934-1940)
  • Santler
    Santler (car)
    The Santler was a British car built in Malvern Link, Worcestershire, England, between 1889 and 1922. They have a good claim to be Britain's first makers of petrol driven cars....

     (1889-1922)
  • Scootacar
    Scootacar
    Scootacar was a British three wheeled microcar built in Leeds by Scootacars Ltd a division of the railway locomotive builder, the Hunslet Engine Company between 1957 and 1964....

     (1957-1964)
  • Scott
    Scott Sociable
    The Scott Sociable was an English automobile manufactured from 1921 to 1925 by the Scott Autocar Company of Bradford, Yorkshire an offshoot of the Scott Motorcycle Company.During World War I Alfred Angas Scott had made sidecar machine gun carriers...

     (1921-1925)
  • Sheffield-Simplex
    Sheffield-Simplex
    Sheffield-Simplex was a British car and motor cycle manufacturer operating from 1907 to 1920 based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and Kingston upon Thames, Surrey.The company received financial backing from the coal magnate Earl Fitzwilliam...

     (1907-1920)
  • Sheppee
    Sheppee
    The Sheppee was an English steam automobile manufactured in York by the Sheppee Motor Company run by Colonel F. H. Sheppee. It was made only in 1912....

     (1912)
  • Siddeley (1902-1904)
  • Siddeley-Deasy
    Siddeley-Deasy
    Siddeley-Deasy was a British automobile, engine and aircraft company based in Coventry in the early 20th century. It was central to the formation, by merger and buy-out, of the later Armstrong Sideleley Motor and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft companies....

     (1912-1919)
  • Simplic
    Simplic
    The Simplic was an English automobile manufactured only in 1914. A 5 hp two-seater, the cyclecar sold for £75....

     (1914)
  • Sinclair
    Sinclair Vehicles
    Sinclair Vehicles Ltd was a company formed in March 1983 by Sir Clive Sinclair as a focus for his work in the field of electric vehicles. The initial investment was £8.6m, which came from the proceeds of the sale of some of Sir Clive's shares in Sinclair Research...

     (1984-1985)
  • Singer
    Singer (car)
    Singer was an automobile company founded in 1905 in Coventry, England. It was acquired by the Rootes Group of the United Kingdom in 1956, who continued the brand until 1970...

     (1905-1970)
  • Skeoch
    Skeoch
    The Skeoch was a Scottish cyclecar manufactured in 1921 by Skeoch Utility Car Company in Dalbeattie, Kirkudbrightshire. It was powered by a 348 cc single-cylinder Precision engine and was fitted with a two-speed Burman gearbox with chain for its final-drive. They sold for £180 complete, or at a...

     (1921)
  • Skirrow
    Skirrow (car)
    The Skirrow was an English automobile manufactured between 1936 and 1939. A midget racing car produced by Harry Skirrow of London, it used a 1000 cc JAP engine it was unusual in having chain drive to all four wheels .-External links:**...

     (1936-1939)
  • Smith & Dowse
    Smith & Dowse
    The Smith & Dowse was an English automobile manufactured only in 1900. The company, located in Isleworth, Middlesex, was primarily a motor engineering and repair firm, but it built a few cars to special order....

     (1900)
  • Sports Junior
    Sports Junior
    The Sports Junior was an English automobile manufactured between 1920 and 1921. A 10 hp two-seater with a four-cylinder Peters engine, it had detachable disc wheels....

     (1920-1921)
  • Squire
    Squire Car Manufacturing Company
    The Squire Car Manufacturing Company was a British auto manufacturer of the 1930s based in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Founded as Squire Motors Ltd by 21-year-old Adrian Squire , formerly of Bentley and MG, the company renamed as the Squire Car Manufacturing Company produced the Squire car,...

     (1935-1936)
  • SS
    SS Cars Ltd
    SS Cars Ltd was a British car maker. It grew out of the Swallow Sidecar Company and was first registered under the new name in 1934. Some conjecture to the origins of the SS name exist, It was John Black who when asked the meaning of SS said it has always stood for Standard Swallow...

     (1934-1945)
  • Standard
    Standard Motor Company
    The Standard Motor Company was founded in Coventry, England in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay . The Standard name was last used in Britain in 1963, and in India in 1987.-1903–1914:...

     (1903-1963)
  • Star
    Star Motor Company
    The Star Motor Company was a British car and commercial vehicle maker based in Wolverhampton and active from 1898 to 1932.Star was founded by the Lisle family who like many other vehicle makers started by making bicycles, in their case in 1893 as Sharratt and Lisle...

     (1898-1932)
  • Sterling
    Sterling (car)
    Sterling was a brand name of automobile marketed in the USA by ARCONA, Austin Rover Cars Of North America under the name Sterling Motor Cars, a division of the Rover car company of the UK...

     (1987-1992)
  • Straker-Squire
    Straker-Squire
    Straker-Squire was a British automobile manufacturer based in Bristol, and later Edmonton in North London....

     (1906-1925)
  • Strathcarron (1998-2001)
  • Sunbeam (1899-1937; 1953-1976)
  • Sunbeam-Talbot
    Sunbeam-Talbot
    -Background history:The Sunbeam Motorcar Company Ltd was formed in 1905 to separate the Sunbeam motorcycle and bicycle maker from the new car manufacturer....

     (1938-1954)
  • Swallow
    Swallow Sidecar Company
    The Swallow Sidecar Company was founded on 4 September 1922 by two friends, William Walmsley and William Lyons . Both families lived in the same street in Blackpool, England. Walmsley had previously been making sidecars and bolting them onto reconditioned motorcycles...

     (1931-1934)
  • Swallow Doretti
    Swallow Doretti
    The Swallow Doretti was a two-seater sports car based on the Triumph TR2, made between 1954 and 1955.The marque came from Swallow Coachbuilding Co. Ltd. which was sold in 1945 by Jaguar to the Helliwell Group which was taken over in 1946 by the British conglomerate, the Tube Investments Group...

     (1954-1955)
  • Swift
    Swift Motor Company
    The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry, England from 1900 until 1931.Founded by James Starley as a sewing machine maker in 1859, the Coventry Sewing Machine Company as it was then called, started making bicycles in 1869 and changed its name to Coventry Machinists. In 1896 they became...

     (1900-1931)
  • Talbot
    Talbot
    Talbot was an automobile marque that existed from 1903 to 1986, with a hiatus from 1960 to 1978, under a number of different owners, latterly under Peugeot...

     (1903-1938)
  • Tamplin
    Tamplin
    The Tamplin was an English automobile manufactured by Tamplin Motors from 1919 to 1923 in Kingston Road, Staines, Middlesex and from 1924 to 1925 in Malden Road, Cheam, Surrey...

     (1919-1925)
  • Tiny (1912-1915)
  • Tornado (1958-1964)
  • Tourette
    Tourette (automobile)
    The Tourette was a microcar by Carr Brothers of Purley, England between 1956 and 1958. It had a 3-wheeled, rounded body that was available either in alloy on an ash frame, or in fibreglass. The car was powered by a 2-stroke 197 cc Villiers engine driving through a four-speed gearbox with...

     (1956-1958)
  • Toward & Philipson
    Toward & Philipson
    The Toward & Philipson was an English steam car manufactured for one year only, 1897. It was a coke-fired wagonette with a three-stage tubular boiler, and could seat six....

     (1897)
  • Trident
    Trident (car company)
    Trident Cars Ltd was a British car manufacturer based originally in Woodbridge then in Ipswich, Suffolk between 1966 and 1974 and again after being restarted in 1976 from premises in Ipswich...

     (1965-1978)
  • Trident
    Trident (car company)
    Trident Cars Ltd was a British car manufacturer based originally in Woodbridge then in Ipswich, Suffolk between 1966 and 1974 and again after being restarted in 1976 from premises in Ipswich...

    (1999-present)
  • Triking
    Triking
    Triking is the United Kingdom based manufacturer of the 3-wheeled Triking Cyclecar, located in Marlingford, Norfolk.-History:Trikings are essentially a modernised version of the 1930s Morgan 3 wheelers...

    (1978-present)
  • Triumph
    Triumph Motor Company
    The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company. The Triumph marque is owned currently by BMW. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them with his own...

     (1923-1984)
  • Trojan
    Trojan (automobile)
    Trojan was a British automobile manufacturer. Cars with the Trojan marque were made from 1914 and 1974.-Early history:The company was founded by Leslie Hayward Hounsfield who went into business as a general engineer in a small workshop called the Polygon Engineering Works in Clapham, South London...

     (1922-1936; 1962-1965)
  • Turner
    Turner (car company)
    The first Turner models were produced between 1951 and 1966 by Turner Sports Cars Ltd, a company established by Jack Turner near Wolverhampton, England. As well as complete cars, Turners were also available in kit form. The company closed in 1966 after the founder had a heart attack...

     (1951-1966)
  • TVR
    TVR
    thumb|right|240px|TVR No.2, the oldest surviving TVR, located at [[Lakeland Motor Museum, Newby Bridge, Cumbria]]TVR was an independent British manufacturer of sports cars. Until 2006 it was based in the English seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, but has since split up into several smaller...

    (1954-present)
  • Tyseley
    Tyseley Car Company
    The Tyseley Car Company, based in Tyseley, Birmingham made light cars between 1912 and 1914.The company evolved around the Tyseley Locomotive Works and its main product was a Cyclecar fitted with Tyseley's own water-cooled twin-cylinder 1100 cc engine, two-speed gearbox and shaft drive...

     (1912-1914)
  • Ultima
    Ultima Sports
    Ultima Sports Ltd. is a sports car manufacturer currently based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Founded in 1992 by Ted Marlow, Ultima manufactures the components to construct cars derived, as road going versions, from the Noble Motorsport Ltd originated Ultima racing cars designed by Lee...

    (1992-present)
  • Unipower
    Unipower
    The Unipower GT was a British specialist sports car first shown at the January 1966 Racing Car Show, and produced by truck maker Universal Power Drives Ltd in Perivale, Middlesex and later by U.W.F...

     (1966-1970)
  • Urecar
    Urecar
    The Urecar was an English automobile manufactured in Bournemouth only in 1923. It was powered by an 8-9 hp four-cylinder Dorman engine; apparently only one was built....

     (1923)
  • Utopian
    Utopian (automobile)
    The Utopian was a unique, one of a kind, English automobile created in 1914. Built by the Utopian Motor Works of Leicester, the car was powered by a two-cylinder water-cooled engine mounted under its seat. For steering, there was a side tiller. Only one car is believed to have been made, for a...

     (1914)
  • Vale
    Vale Special
    The Vale Special was a British sports car made between 1932 and 1935 in Maida Vale, London. - History :The Vale Motor Company was set up in 1931 by Pownoll Pellew as a 'gentleman's hobby' in a rented workshop behind the Warrington pub in Maida Vale...

     (1932-1935)
  • Valveless
    Valveless
    The Valveless was an English automobile manufactured from 1908 until 1915 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. The successor to the Ralph Lucas Valveless, the car marked the entry of the David Brown group into the manufacture of motors...

     (1908-1915)
  • Vanden Plas
    Vanden Plas
    Vanden Plas is the name of a company of coachbuilders who produced bodies for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. Latterly the name became a top-end luxury model designation for cars from various subsidiaries of British Leyland and the Rover Group.-Belgium:It originated in Belgium in...

     (1960-1980)
  • Vapomobile
    Vapomobile
    The Vapomobile was an early English steam car either manufactured or assembled by the Motor Construction Company in Nottingham between 1902 and 1904. Five, Seven and Twelve horsepower models are known to have been produced with the Twelve horsepower model using an American Mason engine. The two...

     (1902-1904)
  • Vauxhall
    Vauxhall Motors
    Vauxhall Motors is a British automotive company owned by General Motors and headquartered in Luton. It was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925. It has been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for...

    (1903-present)
  • Velox (1902-1904)
  • Vulcan (1902-1928)
  • Warne
    Warne (car)
    The Warne was a British 4-wheeled cyclecar made from 1913 to 1915 by Pearsall Warne Ltd based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.The car had a lightweight two-seat open body with full weather equipment and was powered by a JAP, V twin air-cooled engine of 964 cc with an RAC horsepower rating of 8hp....

     (1913-1915)
  • Warwick (1960-1962)
  • Weigel (1906-1909)
  • Westfield (1982-present)
  • Whitlock (1903-1932)
  • Wigan-Barlow
    Wigan-Barlow
    The Wigan-Barlow was an English automobile manufactured from 1922 until 1923. With a factory at Lowther Street and David Road Coventry, it was an unsuccessful assembled light car with 1368 cc Coventry Simplex or 1496 cc Meadows engines....

     (1922-1923)
  • Wilbrook
    Wilbrook
    The Wilbrook was an English automobile manufactured only in 1913 by Brooks and Spencer in Levenshulme, Manchester. A cyclecar, it featured a 9 hp JAP V-twin engine, four seats, and four-wheel brakes....

     (1913)
  • Williamson (1913-1916)
  • Wilson-Pilcher (1901-1904)
  • Wolseley
    Wolseley Motor Company
    The Wolseley Motor Company was a British automobile manufacturer founded in 1901. After 1935 it was incorporated into larger companies but the Wolseley name remained as an upmarket marque until 1975.-History:...

     (1896-1975)
  • Woodrow
    Woodrow (automobile)
    The Woodrow was a British cyclecar manufactured in Stockport from 1913 to 1915.The 1913 cars were powered by a choice of water- or air-cooled V twin engine of 964 cc made by JAP, with a three-speed gearbox and chain drive to a back axle that was unusually, for cyclecars of the time, fitted...

     (1913-1915)
  • Wrigley
    EG Wrigley and Company
    EG Wrigley and Company Ltd. was a British car, car component, and mechanical parts manufacturer, located at Foundry Lane, Soho, Birmingham.Edward Greenwood Wrigley established a tool making business at 232 Aston Road, Birmingham in 1898. EG Wrigley and Company moved to Foundry lane, Soho,...

     (1913)
  • Xtra
    Xtra (automobile)
    The Xtra was an English three wheel cyclecar built from 1922 to 1924 by Xtra Cars, Ltd., of Chertsey, Surrey.A very basic machine, it was designed by Cuthbert Clarke and resembled a three-wheeled sidecar in most respects...

    (1922-1924)

Sources

Georgano, Nick (Ed.). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. ISBN 1-57958-293-1
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