Surrey
AC
One of Britain's oldest car makers, AC began in West Norwood, London, in 1901 and moved to Thames Ditton, Surrey, in 1911. It is best known for the…
Atalanta
Atalanta Motors of Staines built about 20 advanced, expensive sports cars between 1937 and 1939, with tubular chassis, all-round independent suspension and a choice of twin-cam four or…
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…
Caterham
Caterham Cars has built the Seven, the lightweight sports car it took over from Lotus in 1973, ever since. Founded by Graham Nearn, a Lotus dealer in Caterham,…
Dennis
Dennis Brothers of Guildford began by making bicycles in 1895 and became famous for fire engines, buses and dustcarts, all built to order and more strongly than mass-produced…
Gordon Murray Automotive
Gordon Murray Automotive was founded in 2017 by Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1 and Brabham Formula One cars. Its V12 T.50 supercar, with a fan borrowed…
Invicta
Noel Macklin founded Invicta at Cobham, Surrey, in 1925 with backing from Oliver Lyle of Tate & Lyle, building fast, well-made sporting cars such as the 4½ Litre…
Lagonda
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…
McLaren
McLaren grew out of the Formula One team Bruce McLaren founded in 1963. Its road-car business built the record-breaking McLaren F1 of 1992, and since 2010 McLaren Automotive…
NG
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…
Railton
After Invicta, Noel Macklin founded Railton at Cobham in 1933, fitting British coachwork to powerful American Hudson Terraplane chassis. Named after land-speed-record engineer Reid Railton, the cars were…
Designers and coachbuilders connected with Surrey
- E. D. Abbott Coachbuilder 1929 – 1972
Museums near Surrey
- Brooklands Museum about 2 km away
A motoring and aviation museum on part of the former Brooklands Motor Course at Weybridge in Surrey. It opened formally in 1991 and is run by…
Website - Dunsfold Collection of Land Rovers about 14 km away
A registered charity preserving Land Rover history. The collection was started in 1968 by Brian Bashall, who found that his liking for unusual prototype and pre-production…
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