Renfrewshire
Arrol-Johnston
One of Britain's very first car makers, founded in Glasgow in 1895 by the engineer George Johnston with backing from Sir William Arrol, builder of the Forth Bridge.…
Beardmore
Beardmore, the Clydeside shipbuilding and engineering giant, built cars and, from 1919 to 1966, the rugged Beardmore taxi, nicknamed "the Rolls-Royce of taxicabs". Production moved from Paisley to…
Hillman
Founded in Coventry in 1907 by William Hillman with designer Louis Coatalen, Hillman became the everyday family-car brand of the Rootes Group, best known for the Minx, the…
Talbot
Clément-Talbot was founded in London in 1903 by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and its Georges Roesch-designed cars of the 1920s and '30s were among Britain's finest.…
Museums near Renfrewshire
- Riverside Museum about 8 km away
Glasgow's transport museum, in a building by Zaha Hadid Architects on the River Clyde. More than 3,000 objects are on display, from locomotives to cars, and…
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