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Northern Ireland

  • Chambers

    Discontinued 1904 – 1929 Mainstream & Utility

    Chambers Motors of Belfast was the first car manufacturer in Ireland. Jack Chambers, who had designed the first Vauxhall, built around 500 hand-made cars and commercial vehicles in…

  • Clan

    Discontinued 1969 – 1987 Sports & Specialist Kit Car

    A group of former Lotus engineers led by Paul Haussauer founded Clan in 1969 at Washington, County Durham, to build the Crusader, a small glass-fibre monocoque sports car…

  • DeLorean

    Discontinued 1975 – 1982 Sports & Specialist

    The stainless-steel, gull-winged DeLorean DMC-12 was built at Dunmurry, near Belfast in Northern Ireland, from 1981 to 1982, with heavy British government backing. Around 9,000 were made before…