Lancashire
Bond Cars
Bond built quirky three-wheeled Minicars in Preston, Lancashire, from 1949, followed by small sports cars, before Reliant took the company over in 1969. Its best-known model, the wedge-shaped…
Foden
Foden of Sandbach in Cheshire grew from a steam engine builder into one of Britain's best-known lorry makers. Its steam wagons, built for over 30 years, ended in…
Jaguar
Britain's best-known luxury sports and saloon car maker, founded in Blackpool as a motorcycle sidecar business before becoming one of Coventry's defining marques. Renamed from SS Cars in…
Leyland
Leyland Motors, the Lancashire lorry and bus maker, built one of the most ambitious British luxury cars ever, the Leyland Eight of 1920-23. Designed by J. G. Parry-Thomas…
Nova
The Nova, a wedge-shaped kit car on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis with a canopy that lifts forward instead of doors, was launched in 1971 by Automotive Design and…
Seddon Atkinson
Seddon Atkinson was formed in 1970 when Seddon Diesel Vehicles of Oldham bought Atkinson of Preston, a steam-wagon maker turned lorry builder. It made large lorries for refuse…
TVR
TVR built raucous, lightweight sports cars in Blackpool for sixty years, from the Grantura through the Chimaera, Cerbera and Tuscan, wrapping powerful engines in featherweight glassfibre bodies. Production…
Designers and coachbuilders connected with Lancashire
- Keith Duckworth Engineer 1933 – 2005
- William Lyons Designer 1901 – 1985
Museums near Lancashire
- British Commercial Vehicle Museum
Founded in 1983 on part of the former Leyland Motors factory site in Leyland, Lancashire. It displays historic buses, early fire engines and other commercial vehicles…
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