Car Manufacturers
Trident
Trident grew out of an abandoned TVR project: Bill Last bought the rights to a Fissore-built design shown at Geneva in 1965 and built the Trident Clipper and…
Triumph
A Coventry marque with roots in Victorian bicycle manufacturing, Triumph became one of Britain's best-loved sports car makers through the TR series and Spitfire, alongside mainstream saloons like…
Trojan
Trojan built some of Britain's most eccentric cars: the solid-tyred, two-stroke Trojan Utility Car of the 1920s, sold with the slogan "Can you afford to walk?". The Croydon…
Turner
Jack Turner built small, light glass-fibre sports cars near Wolverhampton from 1951 until 1966, powered first by Austin A30 engines and later by Coventry Climax and Ford units.…
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…
Ultima
Ultima began in 1983 as a mid-engined sports car designed by Lee Noble, later of Noble Cars. Built at Hinckley in Leicestershire by the Marlow family since 1992,…
Vanden Plas
Vanden Plas began as a Belgian coachbuilder, and its English company, formed in 1923 in Kingsbury, north London, built bodies for more than 700 vintage Bentleys. Austin bought…
Vauxhall
Vauxhall began as a London engineering firm in 1857, built its first car in 1903 and moved to Luton in 1905. Owned by General Motors from 1925 and…
Vulcan
Vulcan of Southport built cars from 1902 to 1928 and lorries and buses until 1953. In 1918 it bought Southport football club, renamed it Southport Vulcan, and so…
Westfield
Westfield Sportscars, founded by Chris Smith in 1982, builds Lotus Seven-inspired two-seaters as kits and complete cars. A Westfield XTR2 once beat a Pagani Zonda round the Top…
Wolseley
Wolseley was one of Britain's earliest car makers, set up by Vickers in 1901 with Herbert Austin as managing director. Bought by William Morris in 1927, it became…
Zenos
Zenos Cars was founded in Norfolk in 2012 by former Lotus and Caterham executives to build affordable, lightweight sports cars. About 100 of its E10 were built at…
