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Buckinghamshire

  • Aston Martin

    Active 1913 – present Sports & Specialist Luxury / Prestige

    Founded in London in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford, Aston Martin grew from a small maker of sporting light cars into Britain's best-known builder of luxury…

  • Fairthorpe

    Discontinued 1954 – 1973 Sports & Specialist Kit Car

    Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett, the wartime leader of the RAF's Pathfinder Force, founded Fairthorpe in Buckinghamshire in 1954 to build small, light sports cars, many sold as kits.…

  • Lagonda

    Discontinued 1906 – 1990 Luxury / Prestige Sports & Specialist

    American-born former opera singer Wilbur Gunn founded Lagonda at Staines in 1906, naming it after the Shawnee settlement of Lagonda near his home town of Springfield, Ohio. Lagonda…

  • NG

    Discontinued 1979 – 2021 Kit Car

    NG Cars was founded in 1979 by engineer Nick Green in New Milton, Hampshire. Its MGB-based TA, TC, TD and TF evoked the elegant British sports cars of…

  • Peerless

    Discontinued 1957 – 1962 Sports & Specialist

    The Peerless GT, built at Slough from 1957, was a four-seat glass-fibre grand tourer on Triumph TR3 running gear, and a works car won its class at Le…

Designers and coachbuilders connected with Buckinghamshire