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Scooters India (1972-97
1 photo

The Indian government bought the factory for essentially the same reasons that Ferdinando Innocenti had built it after the war. India was a country with poor infrastructure, economically not ready...

Himley Hall (Sept. 2021)
126 photos

Nobody's Favourite
323 photos

Pictures without favourites Groups up to and including 49.119 Caretham Blue-Green No.51c 27.3.2010

Automotive Badges
1022 photos

The prime reason for photographing most of these badges was for a picture to head up differing manufacturers sets But many are works of art in their own right.

Top 300 Views + 9,484, plus views (update...
300 photos

Top 300 viewed photographs Total Views 86,892,491 - 32 day increase 633,391 1) Jaguar C type No. 173 - 90,687 monthly increase 2838 Currently number 300 No.78 Chevrolet task Force...

AC Cars
180 photos

AC Cars Ltd formerly known as Auto Carriers Ltd. is a British specialist automobile manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car marques founded in Britain. The first automobile from what...

Abarth.
41 photos

Abarth Badge Abarth was founded by Austrian-Italian Carlo Abarth and Italian Armando Scagliarini in Turin in 1949. initially as a racing car builder. The firm began its association with Fiat in 1952...

The All British Engine Company (ABC) was founded at Brooklands in 1910, moving to nearby Hersham, Walton on Thames in 1914. When aircraft production slumped after WW1 this bike was desined by...

Abbey Cat
1 photo

Abbey Cat (1984) Engine 650cc NSU air cooled Registration Number - Never Registered This vehicle was built by a team of students and staff from the Whitley Abbey School, Coventry, The car was custom...

Adams Designs
3 photos

Designed by former Marcos designers Dennis and Peter Adams at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire,

Founded by Heinrich Kleyer in Frankfurt, the Adler factory produced bicycles, typewriters, motorcycles and calculators in addition to cars. Prior to WW1 the company used shaft driven De Dion two-...

Adro Special
1 photo

AEC.
160 photos

AEC was a United Kingdom based vehicle manufacturer which built buses, motorcoaches and lorries from 1912 until 1979. The acronym stood for the Associated Equipment Company, but this name was hardly...

Aermacchi
3 photos

Aermacchi was an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Formerly known as Aeronautica Macchi, the company was founded in 1912 by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy. With a factory located on...

AF (Auto Forge).
3 photos

A F Cars Badge - History AUTOMOTIVE BADGES SET www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157631048301272... The first AF was created by Alexander (Sandy) Fraser in 1969, but sometime later that he...

Africar
1 photo

The Africar was a project instigated by British engineering graduate and wildlife photographer Terry Howarth, with a view to developing and marketing a cheap, efficient, easily repairable vehicle...

Airport Push Back Tender
1 photo

Airstream.
14 photos

Airstream is a brand of luxury recreational vehicle manufactured in Jackson, Ohio. The distinctive rounded sausage shaped trailer originated form a design of Hawley Bolus in the 1930's. Bowlus had...

Aixam-Mega is a French automobile manufacturer based in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie. It was founded in 1983 to make microcars following the acquisition of Arola. The company can trace its history back to...

AJS was the name used for cars and motorcycles made by the Wolverhampton, England, company A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd, from 1909 to 1931, by then holding 117 motorcycle world records. After the firm...

A.K. (AC Replica)
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AK Sportscars Ltd is based in Peterborough in the UK specialising in the design and manufacture of one of the finest cobra kit recreations in the country – the AK 427.

Albatros
2 photos

Albatros (Automobile) Albatros was founded in 1922 by H.T.W.Manwaring in premises on Croft Road, Coventry. The Albatros name is said to have been derived from the name of Albert Ross a former boss...

Albion.
32 photos

Albion Motors Albion Motors of Scotstoun, Glasgow, was a Scottish Automobile maker, later concentrating exclusively on Lorry and other Commercial vehicle production. Today the company is a subsidiary...

The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1890 and 1957. based in Neuilly, Seine Established by Edmond Gentil in 1890 as a bycycle manufacture adding morot...

ALD was created by French motor sport enthusiast Louis Descartes in 1984 with there first car ALD 1 achieving a LeMans finish in 1985. ALD continued to develope the car with new chassis 02,03 and 04...

Originally built and designed by Alan Goodwin and and Don McLoughlin as one of the first monocooque chassis', and designed to adapt to a number of engines, to run in various formula. It first used a...

Alexis
6 photos

Alex Francis began building trials cars in 1953 and in 1959 he set up Alexis with Australian Bill Harris to start producing customer cars including a Formula Junior model. Harris had previously been...

Alfa Dana (DK)
1 photo

Contrary to its name the Alfa Dana has no Italian connection, in fact the marque was the most significant Dannish manufacturer of 500cc Formula Three cars. The companys principle Uno Jensen set...

Alfa Romeo.
694 photos

Alfa Romeo Badge The badge has changed a number of times since Alfa was founded in 1910. The badge is based on the coat of arms of the Visconti family. Legend has it that in the 5th century a man...

Alfa Romeo replica
2 photos

Allard
70 photos

Allard Allard Motor Company stemmed directly from the concept of Sydney Allard's pre 2nd World War trials special which had a divided axle independant front suspension on a Ford V8 frame. Its trials...

Wm. Allchin Ltd
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William Allchin founded an engineering business at the 'Globe Works' by the River Nene in Northampton in 1847. By 1890 when the founder died, the firm had was well known for the manufacturer of steam...

Alldays & Onions
6 photos

Alldays and Onions Alldays and Onions manufactured cars between 1898-1918 Founded in 1889 from the merger of two long established Birmingham engineering companies. Like many early automotive...

John Allen (Oxford)
3 photos

John Allen and Sons of Hockmore Street, Cowley, Oxford The firm was originally established in 1868 as the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company, soon spread to other locations. In 1887 John Allen was...

Allis Chalmers
12 photos

Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries. Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission...

Allora (Handmade Cars)
1 photo

Allora (Handmade Cars) of Bushey, Hertfordshire produced from 1986 to 1989. Handmade Cars was a British manufacturer of repica kit cars established by Stuart Gross in 1986 under the brand name...

Alpina.
45 photos

Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH is an automobile manufacturing company based in Buchloe, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany selling their own cars, based on BMW cars. Alpina works...

Alta.
15 photos

Alta 1931-54 Founded by Geoffrey Taylor, early cars were powered by an 1100cc aluminium block engine of his own design, and in 1931 engines of 1496cc and 1961cc became available. From these sports...

Alvis.
413 photos

In 1919 T.G.John and Co. Ltd. founded a company in 1919 to produce stationary engines and carburettors. The first car produced was a 10/30 model. Following complaints from Avro aviation that the...

American Motors (1954-on) Financial difficulties forced Nash and Hudson under the presidency of George Romney who concentrated the companies efforts on the promotion of the Rambler marque, retiring...

A M General
2 photos

A M General was established in 1971. and can trace its roots via Willys, Overland, Kaiser, and AMC and was set up for the manufacture of military and heavy vehicles. It is best known for the...

American Austin
2 photos

American Austin (1930-41) Badge - History This was Americas version of the Austin Seven launched with the hope of creating a large market for the small car, in the USA. The cars with their small...

American La France
12 photos

The American LaFrance Fire Engine Company is one of the oldest fire apparatus manufacturers in America. With roots that go back to approximately 1832, the companies that went on to become American...

Amilcar
35 photos

Amilcar (1921-39) Founded by Joseph Lamy with headquarters in Saint-Denis (France) The first car was a small cyclecar designed by Jules Salomon and Edmond Moyet. Followed by a 903cc side valve in two...

Anadol was Turkey's first domestic mass-production passenger vehicle, and the second Turkish car after the ill-fated Devrim sedan of 1961. Anadol cars and pick-ups were manufactured by Otosan...

Anhui Ankai Automobile Co., Ltd. is a Chinese manufacturer from Hefei, Anhui, China. which specialises in the production of buses and coaches. Ankai's products include urban buses, regular coaches,...

Antonov
2 photos

Antonov State Company formerly the Antonov Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex (Antonov ASTC) and earlier the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company....

Apal began as a small glass fibre, automobile specialist company founded by Edmund Pery. Building a variety of models and up to 5000 bodies between 1968-73. Their most successful single model was the...

Amphicar
2 photos

The Amphicar was the brain child of its designer Hans Trippel as an amphibious vehicle capable of 65mph on the road and a top speed of 7 knots on water, and able to withstand ocean waves, but...

Aprilia
3 photos

Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded by Alberto Beggio shortly after WW2, and based in Noale, Italy The company started as a manufacturer of bicycles and moved on to manufacture...

Aquila
3 photos

Aquila Racing Cars Aquila Racing Cars is a Danish race car manufacturer established since 2003. By founder and Chief designer Anders W. Bonde and General manager Dan Suenson. In 2005 development...

ARG + Jaguar Prpototypes and Concepts
21 photos

Argosy
5 photos

Argyll
4 photos

The Hozier engineering company was established by Alex Govan in a former bicycle factory in Bridgeton, Glasgow in 1899. Early cars closely resembled the Renault of the period but soon Govan was...

Ariel
27 photos

Ariel Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Bournbrook, Birmingham. It was one of the leading innovators in British motorcycling, and was part of the Ariel marque. The company...

Ariel Motor Company
13 photos

Ariel Motor Company The Ariel motor company has no connection with the former motorcycle company. Founded in 1991 as Solocrest Ltd. the company changed their name to Ariel in 2001, based in...

Aristocat
6 photos

Aristocat are built and were designed by Autotune of Rishton, Blackburn, Lancashire. The company was established by Anthony Taylor and remain a family run company. Involved as Autotune in a number...

Arkley
2 photos

Arkley SS (1967) Engine 1275cc S4 OHV Registration Number NOP 182 F The Arkley SS was designed by John Britten in 1969 as a fibreglass front-end and rear-end body conversion to be fitted to the MG...

Armstrong Siddeley
67 photos

Armstrong Siddeley Siddeley Autocars were founded by John Davenport Siddeley in Coventry in 1866 with the early products based heavily on Peugeot's, using many of their parts but fitting an English...

Arnolt
6 photos

Arnolt Inc. of Chicago and Warsaw, Indiana was created by Stanley H. Wacky Arnolt a Chicago Industrialist, who began importing foreign cars in the 1950's to the USA. Sold as American cars they were...

Arnott Automobiles.
6 photos

The Arnott name had long been associated with the motor industry due to its production of superchargers. The Arnott Automibles began with Miss Daphne Arnott, who had been a regular at Brands Hatch,...

Arrol Johnston.
3 photos

When his experimental steam tram went up in flames in 1894, locomotive engineer Goerge Johnston turned to internal combustion, building a heavy Dogcart with an opposed twin engine with four pistons....

Arrows.
18 photos

Arrows Grand Prix International was a British Formula One team active from 1978 to 2002. For a period of time, it was also known as Footwork. The Arrows Grand Prix International team was founded in...

Artega
3 photos

Artega is a German sports car manufacturer, founded by Klaus Dieter Frers in 2006, and based in Delbruk, Germany, in 2010 a private equity and venture capital firm that already held a stake in Artega...

Ascari
3 photos

Ascari Cars Ltd. is a British automobile manufacturer that is based in Banbury, United Kingdom founded by Dutch millionaire Klaas Zwart. The company is named after Alberto Ascari (1918–1955) who...

Ashley
11 photos

Ashley Automobile was founded in 1955 by Peter Pellandine and Keith Waddington to manufacture body shells and chassis for specials. They also offered a range of products to the special builder such...

Asquith Motors (1981)
5 photos

The Asquith is an English automobile built since 1981 and originally based in Braintree Essex. The company was founded by Bruce West, who designed the logo, created the name and designed all the...

Assegai F1
2 photos

Assegai F1 (1961) Engine 1500cc Alfa Romeo Production 1 Built by South African engineer and racing driver Tony Coetze with a view to forming the basis of a four car Formula One Team. Powered by a...

Aster (Fr.)
1 photo

Aster was a French manufacturer of automobiles and the leading supplier of engines to other manufacturers from 1900 to 1910 the company was established in 1878 in the Rue de Paris, Saint-Denis and...

Aster (GB)
4 photos

Aster (automobiles) (GB) Badge AUTOMOTIVE BADGES SET www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157631048301272... Not to be confused with the French Aster ( Ateliers de Construction Mecanique)....

Aston Martin.
946 photos

Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street,...

A brief history on the brief life of the ATCO Trainer: Launched amid great fanfare on June 16th 1939, the ATCO Junior Safety-first Trainer was designed to help stem the rising toll of road...

Atkinson
35 photos

Originally a firm of steam-wagon repairers and manufacturers, founded in 1907 in Preston, Lancashire, England, Atkinson & Co. evolved into Seddon Atkinson Vehicles Ltd through a succession of...

ATS (Formula One)
1 photo

ATS 100 (1963/64) Engine 1497cc In 1961 the sharknose Ferrari had been the dominant car and their American driver Phil Hill had claimed the drivers championship. Inside the team it was a different...

Auburn
18 photos

Auburn 1900-36 (USA) Founded by Frank and Morris Eckhart in 1874 the Auburn (Indiana) Carriage Company built their first car in 1900 and went into production in 1903. Other models followed and a...

Audi.
328 photos

Audi was founded in 1909 by August Horsch who had been ousted from his previous company Horsch. Their first car was produced at Zwickau in 1910. Horsch of course (Mr. Ed.) could not use the name...

Ausper (racing Cars)
4 photos

Ausper - the name is a concoction of Australian Performance Cars. Originally based on the Tomahawk a design from Australian Ton Hawks it started life as a rear engine Formula Junior car set in a...

Auster AOP 9 Introduced in 1955 as a military air observation aircraft designed as a successor to the Auster AOP6 it is a braced high wing single engined monoplane. Powered by a 180bhp Blackburn...

Austin
1711 photos

Austin Motor Company Founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin a former manager of the Wolseley tool and motor company, in Longbidge, Birmingham in 1905. The first car was a conventional 5-litre...

AUSTIN (Australia)
2 photos

Austin Healey
486 photos

Austin Healey was a British sports car make, established through a joint venture between Leonard Lord of the Austin Division, of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and Donald Healey of his own...

Autobianchi
2 photos

Designed by Luigi Rapi, the Autobianchi Bianchina was introduced in 1957, based on a Fiat 500 it was available as a Berlina (saloon), Cabriolet (roadster), Trasformabile (convertible), Panoramica...

Autobyk by Excelsior
3 photos

Autocar
4 photos

The Clark family had dabbled with motor car production as early as 1897, forming the Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company that year. Their first vehicle was a lightweight, gasoline-powered tandem...

Autocars
1 photo

Autocars Co. Ltd. of Haifa, Israel, was founded in the 1950s as Israel's first car manufacturer. Autocars Ltd made fiberglass-shelled cars that were made popular in Israel during the 1960s and...

Autocrat
2 photos

Autocrat was established in 1911, based in Balsall Heath and Hall Green Birmingham. The company had its roots in the Birmingham cycle trade, and production concentrated on light cars up until the...

AutoKraft
1 photo

E. G. Autokraft are renowned specialists in the world of Ferrari replicas, are their 365 Daytona Spider is considered by many to be one of their accurate. The team behind these models was headed up...

Automoto (Motorcycles, France)
2 photos

Automoto was established in 1901 by Chavanet, Gros, Pichard et Cie in Saint-Étienne, Loire. Described as robust machine, Automoto built their own engines in the early years, later these were...

Auto Union
22 photos

Auto Union (Germany) The result of a merger in 1932 between, DKW, Horsch, Wanderer and Audi. Of these companies only DKW thanks to big motorcycle sales was financially sound. Apart from the Ferdinand...

Autovia (1935-38)
3 photos

Autovia was a short lived British brand of car, created by Riley as a subsiduary to produce large luxury cars from a purpose built factory at Foleshill, Coventry. The venture was ambitious and even...

Autozam
2 photos

In the late 1980s, Mazda diversified in the Japan market with the launch of three new marques. The company created Autozam, Eunos, and Ẽfini, in addition to the Mazda and Ford brands already...

Avante
2 photos

The Avante was a short lived Coupe (1982-86) it was an attempt at an exotic GT car based on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis, although a version with Golf GTi running gear was also tried. Designed in a...

Aveling Porter & Aveling Barford
57 photos

Aveling and Porter Badge The company was founded by Thomas Aveling and Richard Thomas Porter to develop a steam engine in 1861. Three years later in 1865 they were producing more steam machines than...

Avibas (Brazil)
1 photo

ACW (Alan Wilkinson Engineering) was created by Alan Wilkinson and based in Yeovil Somerset, during their eight years (1990-98) two models were produced the Pintail (Sports) and the Redwing...

AWZ (EB Automobilwerke Zwickau )
1 photo

Ayats have been coach builders Ayats SA Ayats is the trading name of Carrocerías Ayats SA, a Spain-based coachbuilder. The company constructs a range of coach bodies on a variety of chassis, and...

Built by Cheshire based Briggs Automotive, as a single seater for the public road.

Bajaj Auto Limited is a global two-wheeler and three-wheeler Indian manufacturing company producing motorcycles, scooters and auto rickshaws and is part of the Bajaj Group. Bajaj Auto came into...

Baker Tractors (Ohio)
2 photos

Ballamy
2 photos

Built by Leslie Ballamy, and powered by a V8 Ford sidevalve flathead engine with the possible use of Offenhauser intake manifolds (though registered as having a 2622cc Ford V8). This car was one of a...

Ballot
4 photos

Ballot Automobiles AUTOMOTIVE BADGES SET www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157631048301272... Ballot Set www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157631642295270... Ballot was a French...

The was a British-built marque of microcars produced in small numbers in Hull, in the 1980's. Designed and built by Alan Evans it featured a single seat fibreglass body a fibreglass body with left...

Bandvagn
1 photo

Banham Conversions
3 photos

(Paul) Banham Conversion (Banmoco) who began by making conversions of the Ferrari 400, Aston Martin DBS and V8, and the Rolls-Royce Corniche. By the 1980's they were producing a kit to convert the...

Banks Europa
1 photo

BAR (British American Racing)
5 photos

BAR was title chosen by owners British American Tobacco (BAT) who displayed their Lucky Strike and 555 brands. on the cars. In mid November 2004, partners Honda purchased the remaing 45 per cent...

Barazi-Epsilon
1 photo

Barkas
7 photos

Barkas was the East German manufacturer of small delivery vans and minibuses named the B1000.. The van was built in a new factory in Chemnitz (then known as Karl-Marx-Stadt) on a site which was...

Sydney Barras
3 photos

Barre (Fr.)
1 photo

Barre was a French automobile manufacturer, established by Gaston Barre around 1900, although his first car powered by a Gallardet engine was exhibited one year earlier at the 1899 Paris Motor Show....

Baron Acroyd (1916)
2 photos

Baron Acroyd El Pampero (1912) Engine 1000cc Twin A prototype built by Barron Acroyd a pilot inm the RFC and later RAF who was killed in action against the Flying Circus of The Red Baron, Manfred ...

Batmobile
3 photos

Beach Buggy. (Dune Buggy),
5 photos

Bean Cars were established in the West Midlands by A Harper Sons Bean, Ltd at factories in Dudley, Worcestershire, and Coseley, Staffordshire The companies origins date from 1822 when Absolom Harper...

Beardmore
10 photos

The London Taxi have for their most of the history been specialised vehicles, designed to the specification required by the Hackney carriage licensing authorities and as such only a few manufacturers...

Beauford,
7 photos

Beauford cars are a family run business, founded around 1985, and based in Upholland, Lancashire, before their relocation to Biddulph, Stoke on Trent The cars are supplied in kit form and to date...

Bedelia
6 photos

Bedelia (1909-25) One of the worlds first cyclecars, the Bedelia was built in Paris by Bourbeau & Devaux. Noteworthy for having the driver seated behind the passengers. The cars were of wooden...

Bedford
286 photos

Bedford Badge Vauxhall Motors and Bedford share the image of the Griffin used on the coat of arms of Falkes de Breaute an Anglo-Norman soldier who served first King John and later King Henry III. He...

Belsize
2 photos

Established in 1901 and based in Clayton, Manchester, the company was founded as an offshoot of bicycle manufacturers Marshall and Company and took itts name from the Belsize works, were the bikes...

Benelli
2 photos

Benelli was established in Pesaro, Italy in 1911, by recently widowed Teresa Benelli who invested all of the family capitol into the business, in the hope that it would offer stable work for her six...

Benetton
10 photos

Benetton Formula Ltd., normally referred to as Benetton were Formula One constructors and entrants during seasons 1986-2001, owned by the Benetton family who ran the worldwide clothing brand and...

Bentley
712 photos

Bentley Badge Bentley was founded in 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley who had formerly designed aero engines, most notably that of the Sopwith Camel aircraft. Run as an independant company from 1919-31...

Karl Benz is widely regarded as the father of the car, or farther of the auromobile industry a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the...

Berkeley.
21 photos

Berkeley Cars Ltd. of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England produced economical sporting microcars with motorcycle-derived engines from 322 cc to 692 cc and front wheel drive between 1956 and 1960. The...

Berliet
11 photos

Marius Berliet began experimenting with automobiles around 1894, by 1900 he was building single cylinder cars folled in 1902 by a twins. Berliet took over the former Audibert + Lavirotte plant in...

Beta (KTM)
2 photos

Beta has its origins in 1904 as a bicycle manufacturing company named "Società Giuseppe Bianchi. riginally based in the town of Via Bellariva and later moved to Florence. The name Beta comes...

Bianchi
2 photos

Founded by 21 year old Edoardo Bianchi a former medical instrument maker in 1895 Bianchi is the worlds oldest bicycle manufacturer Bianchi also formed a brand of Italian motorcycle made from 1897 to...

Bimota is a small, Italian manufacturer of custom and production motorcycles. It was founded in 1973 in Rimini, Italy by Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini. The company name is a portmanteau derived from...

Bitter.
11 photos

The Bitter is a premium sports-luxury automobile marque produced in Germany and later Austria. Founder Erich Bitter, a former racing driver turned automobile tuner, importer and ultimately designer...

Bizzarrini
10 photos

Giotto Bizzarini had worked with Alfa Romeo and Ferrari on development of new models. Forming his own company, Autostar, in 1962 he worked with Renzo Rivolta producing the Iso Rivolta and the Iso...

Blackjack
4 photos

Bluebird
10 photos

Bloodhound SSC
2 photos

BMB (British Motor Boats)
3 photos

British Motor Boats (BMB President) Badge British Motor Boats was established in 1922, registered at Britannia House, Ampton Street, London WC1, originally selling the Elto outboard motor along with...

The British Motor Corporation Limited, BMC was a Longbridge, Birmingham, United Kingdom based vehicle manufacturer, a new holding company formed in early 1952 to give effect to an agreed merger of...

BMC Huffacker
3 photos

BMMO Buses
4 photos

Midland Red was a bus company that operated in The Midlands from 1905 until 1981. It was one of the largest English bus companies, operating over a large area between Gloucester in the south and...

Birmingham + Midland Tramway
1 photo

BMW.
883 photos

BMW entered existence as a business entity following a restructuring of the Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft engine manufacturing firm in 1917. After the end of World War I in 1918, BMW was forced to cease...

BMW Motorcycles
24 photos

Boatian (Motorcycles)
2 photos

Baotian Motorcycle Industrial Co. Ltd, or Jiangmen Sino-HongKong Baotian Motorcycle Industrial Co. Ltd. was established in 1994 and began operating in the UK in 2005 and has consistently topped the...

Bochum Solar World
1 photo

Bochum Solar One (2007) This is a 2009 exact replica of Bochum Solar One built by FH Bochum to contest the 2007 World Solar Challenge. The body is covered by solar panels that convert the sunlight...

Bolide (1899-06)
2 photos

Leon Lefevbre started car production in 1899 with a range of high built belt driven racing cars the largest being a 11,699cc monster. Chain drive came in 1901, and by 1902 the Bolides were...

Bolinder Munktell
1 photo

Bolinder-Munktell (BM) was a tractor and machines manufacturer founded in Eskilstuna, Sweden in 1932 through the merger of the mechanical companies Bolinder and Munktell. Bolinder-Munktell traces...

Bolster Special
1 photo

Bond Sports Car (Yorkshire)
1 photo

Bond.
67 photos

Sharps Commercials Ltd was a British car maker. It changed its name to Bond Cars Ltd in 1963. The company was taken over by the Reliant Motor Co Ltd of Tamworth, Staffs in February 1969 who...

Boneshaker
1 photo

Boneshaker (or bone-shaker) is a name used from about 1869 up to the present time to refer to the first type of true bicycle with pedals, which was called velocipede by its manufacturers. Boneshaker...

Martin Bonser
4 photos

Bonser Yard Truck, powered by a Lister Diesel Engine. Originally owned by Kent County Council Bonser were a well respected supplier of small industrial and horticultural trucks.

Borgward
38 photos

Borgward was a German automobile manufacturer founded by Carl F. W. Borgward (November 10, 1890 – July 28, 1963). The company was based in Bremen. The Borgward group eventually produced four brands...

Bowler Motorsports
4 photos

Based in Belper, Derbyshire. Bowler produced performance vehicles, to perform in Rally Raid ect.

Beribo Replica Automobiles. of Docaster producer of AC Cobra replica kits. Around 200 289 Cobra's and 35 wider bodied 427 Cobra based on the Mk. 3 Cobra

Brabham
72 photos

Brabus
6 photos

Brabus. Brabus was founded in 1977 in Bottrup, Germany to provide high performance after market tuning specialising in the tuning of Mercedes Benz and Matbach cars. Originally owned by Baron Martin...

Bradford.
10 photos

Branson
1 photo

Brasier
3 photos

Brasier was a French automobile manufacturer, based in the Inry near Paris, founded in 1905 by Charles-Henri Brasier and Georges Richard, originally as Richard-Brasier .Brasier had previously...

Brawn is quiet probably the most successful entered to have competed in Formula One. the team was formed by race car designer Ross Brawn by a management buyout of Honda Racing F1 Team in 2009,...

Brenchley
1 photo

Bricklin
2 photos

Bricklin was conceived and designed by Canadian Malcolm Bricklin in 1971.The car, the SV-1 went into production in 1974 in Saint John, New Brunswick with a separate facility in Minto, New Brunswick...

Bristol.
118 photos

Bristol Cars Limited is a manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars headquartered in Patchway, near Bristol. Bristol have always been a low-volume manufacturer; the most recent published official...

Bristol Commercial Vehicles
47 photos

The Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company started to build buses for its own use in 1908 and soon started building vehicles for other companies. In 1955 this part of the business was separated out as...

Bristol-Taurus
2 photos

British Aerospace
1 photo

British Salmson
16 photos

British Salmson (1934-38) The French Salmson was built at Billancourt near Paris, founded by Emile Salmson in 1912 to make aero-engines. By 1920 they were making GN's under licence and developing...

British United Traction
2 photos

British United Traction was established in 1946 when AEC and Leyland amalgamated their trolleybus interests. Neither had produced trolleybuses since early years of World War II. With both forecasting...

Briton
2 photos

In 1909 the Star Cycle Company of Wolverhampton, who had been building a 10hp Little Briton semi racer since 1908, changed its name to the Briton Motor Company, relocating its premises to Willenhall...

Brockhouse :: Corgi.
3 photos

Brockhouse Corgi (1947-54) Engine 98cc The Brockhouse Corgi was developed by Brockhouse Engineering (Southport) from a design originating from the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII....

Bassett's Racing Motors
2 photos

Broadspeed.
4 photos

Broadspeed was established by Ralph Broad, he began his racing career in the mid 1950s, in 1959 he bought and worked on a very fast early BMC Mini and began to sell conversion packages based on his...

Brooke ERA
1 photo

British Racing Motors (BRM) was a British Formula One motor racing team. Founded in 1945 by Raymond Mays, and Peter Berthon and based in the Bourne, Lincolshire, with financial and industrial backing...

Brough Superior
20 photos

Brough Superior, motorcycles, sidecars and cars, were made in Haydn Road in Nottingham, England, from 1919 to 1940. The company was founded by George brough a racer, designer, and showman. All...

Brown (Bros.)
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Brown Brothers of Great Eastern Street, London, UK. offered motor tricycles, and light cars from 1899 but had no manufacturing premises. It offered the American Whitney as a Brown Whitney and some...

Brutsch
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Brustsch Mopetta Badge The Brutsch company was founded in 1950 by Egon Brutsch Fahrzeugbau a German car designer based in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg best known for its production of a large number...

BSA (British Small Arms) As the name and the badge suggest the company was founded by merging many of the small factories and foundries in Birmingham's Gun Quarter. At the time Birmingham was the...

Buckland
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Dick Buckland developed an automobile and presented it at a kit car show in Stoneleigh in 1985 . The production and marketing of automobiles and kits was initially carried out together with Laurie...

Buckler.
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Buckler Cars Were founded by Chadwick Dereck Frank Butler as Bucklers of Reading Ltd and Buckler Cars Ltd.as a precision engineering business in Reading which undertook work for the motor trade. In...

Buell Motorcycles
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Buell Motorcycles is an American motorcycle manufacturer based in Grand Rapids, MI, founded in 1983 by ex-Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell. in 1993 Harley Davidson aquired 49 per cent of Buelll...

Bugatti.
202 photos

Bugatti Badge Bugatti was founded in Molsheim, France by Ettore Bugatti an Italian imigrant. The company produced expensive, and in the case of the Royalle some of the most exclusive bespoke cars in...

Buick.
191 photos

Buick is currently Americas oldest automotive brand, Established by Scots born David Dunbar Buick as the Buick Motor Company in Detroit 1903. Later that year the company was taken over by James h...

Burlington
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Burlington Cars was a British kit car company originally based in Leamington Spa before moving to Northampton in 1988, along with a change of name to Burlington Motor Company reforming as the...

Burstner RV
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Bultaco
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Burrell
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Burrell Traction Engines (1927) Manufactured by Charles Burrell + Sons of Thetford, Norfolk. At its peak the company employed 350 workers. This is a very late Burrell the company finally closed in...

Burton Car Company
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Burton Car Company Badge - History The Burton is a Dutch sports car based on French 2CV technology. Company founders , Iwan and Dimitri Goebel started to design the Burton late in 1998, the project...

Bussing
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Cadillac
268 photos

Cadillac Emblem one of the few auto badges with a true heraldic origin. It is the crest of Le Sieur Antoine De La Mothe Cadillac born Gascony, France 05.03.1658 of a prominent aristocratic family -...

Calcott
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Calcott were based in Far Gosford Street, Coventry and made roller skeates, cycles and motor cycles before hiring A. Alderson from Singer to design their first car in 1913.. At its height Calcott...

Calthorpe
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The Calthorpe Motor Company were based in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England making a range of cars, motorcycles and bicycles from 1904 to 1932. The company started out in the 1890s as a Birmingham...

Can-Am.
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Cannon GT
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Designed and built by Mike Cannon maker of the all conquering Cannon trials cars of the 1950's and 1960's. Believed to one of two built (but possibly unique) and raced by Cannon and others between...

Caparo
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(Royal Caravan)
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The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under...

Caravelle
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Carbodies
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Carbodies Limited is a British company, based at Holyhead Road, Coventry. It started business as a coachbuilder, and now, as The London Taxi Company is best known for its production of London...

Carver (automobile co.)
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Carver Europe B.V. is a Dutch company that develops and manufactures three-wheeled electric enclosed man-wide vehicles. The company's core technology is the Dynamic Vehicle Control (DVC) system,...

Case IH is a brand of agricultural equipment. It was created in 1985 when Tenneco bought selected assets of the agricultural division from International Harvester and merged it into its J.I. Case...

Castle (Kidderminster)
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Castle Three of Kidderminster produced a sturdy three wheeler from 1919-22 initially powered by a 1094cc Dorman engine coupled to a two speed gearbox. Later a more powerful 1207cc engine was...

Caterham.
45 photos

Founded in 1973 by Graham Nearn and based in Caterham, Surrey

Caterpillar
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Ford GT40 replicas built by Auto Futura, Cape Town, South Africa

Ceasar Special
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Century (GB) 1903-07
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Not to be confused with the US built Century or Century Electric built 1911-15 Century was founded by Ralph Jackson, who initially made three wheeled Forecars in Altrincham, Cheshire, but moved...

Cervini
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Cerini are a long established US based company, and are manufacturers and suppliers of aggressively styled after market body components including Hoods, Louvers ect. for all manner of performance...

Automobiles Charron, Girardot , and Voigt SA (trade mark C.G.V.) was a French motor manufacturer founded by the racing cyclists and motorists Fernand Charron, Léonce Girardot and Émile Voigt. They...

Challenger
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The Challenger was created by two Cornish freinds, Dereck Robinson and John Wilkinson. In 1984 they decided to enter the kit car business using Dereck's 1961 3.8litre series 1 E Type Roadster to take...

Chalmers
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Chalmers Automobile Company. The company started making automobiles in 1910, located in Detroit, Michigan. Named after Hugh Chalmers of the National Cash Register Co. It flourished in its early years...

Chamberlain Tractors (Oz)
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While Bob Chamberlain was working as a tractor mechanic in Victoria, Australia he designed a tractor and built a prototype tractor around what he believed farmers The Western Australian Government...

Chapman Mercury
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The Chapman Mercury is a car in the true spirit of postwar Motorsport. Built by race enthusiast Phil Chapman and driven at the event by his grandson Oliver Tomlin. Phil Chapman ran a small auto...

Chapperral
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Chapperral were a US race team founded by Hap Sharpe and Jim Hall in 1963 and based in Texas.

Charron (Fr). (1906-30)
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Charron was a French automobile manufacturer, based in the Paris conurbation, and active between 1906 and 1930. Founded by Fernand Charron a former racing cyclist and racing driver, swept up by the...

Chater-Lea
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Chater-Lea was a British bicycle, car and motor cycle maker with a purpose-built five-storey factory in Banner Street, EC1, in the City of London, and, from 1928, premises at Letchworth,...

Checker
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Morris Markin, (a clothier from Chicago, Illinois) became the owner of 'Markin Automobile Body', an auto-body manufacturer based in Joliet, Illinois following a default by the owner on a $15,000...

Chenard Walcker
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Chernard Walcker: Chenard-Walcker, also known as Chenard & Walcker and Chenard et Walcker was a French automobile manufacturer, from 1900 to 1946. The factory was at first in Asnières-sur-Seine...

Cheetah
3 photos

Chesil
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Chesil Speedster 356 (1972) Engine 2000 cc The Chesil Speedster is a good quality replica of the Porsche 356 sold in kit form for a donor Volkswagen Beetle (By using a proportion of the original VW...

Chevrolet
862 photos

Taken on a 1929 Chevrolet International AC Chevrolet was founded on November 3rd 1911 by Louis Chevrolet and former General Motors founder William C. Durrant. Chevrolet were aquired by General...

Chevron.
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Chevron Cars Ltd. is a manufacturer of racing cars, founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. Following Bennett's death in 1978, the firm has remained active in various guises. The original company's designs...

Chieftan Tank
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Chinook Racing (Canada)
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Chinook racing cars were built in Canada, by Hungarian brothers Rudy and George Fejer between 1966-70. They began by producing cars for F5000, , Can-Am, Formula Vee and Indycar racers. In 1969 when...

Chitty Bang Bang
2 photos

Chrysler
139 photos

Chrysler Badge Chrysler is the brand flagship of the Chrysler corporation, founded by Walter Chrysler with it's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The premium brand of the corporation with the...

Churchill Tank
2 photos

Cisitalia
7 photos

Cisitalia (1946-63) Cisitalia is an Italian sports and racing car brand. The name Cisitalia derives from Compagnia Industriale Sportiva Italia, a business conglomerate founded in Turin in 1946 and...

Citroen.
441 photos

Founded in by Andre-Gustav Citroen 1919 as an armaments, but post WW1 demand ceased and production moved to automobiles. Citroen became the first massed production automobile factory outside the USA...

Claas Trctorsew set
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Clairmonte Special
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The car was designed by a group of ex-Lotus engineers led by Paul Haussauer with styling by John Frayling. The company was set up in 1969, and production started in small scale from July 1971. From...

Classic Roadsters (USA)
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Built by Classic Roadsters, Fargo, North Dakota as a replica 1936 Mercedes 540K powered by a Ford V6 engine , power assisted rack and pinion steering, modern suspension, burled wood dash, custom...

Clemment (Fr) 1896-03
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Having already made a fortune in the cycle industry Gustave-Adolphe Clement launched the Clement-Gladiator-Humber company in 1896 with a float capitol of 22 million French francs. The Humber...

Clayton + Shuttleworth
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Clayton + Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Established in 1842 by Nathaniel Clayton (1811–1890) formed a partnership with his...

Clemment.
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Having already made a fortune in the cycle industry Gustave-Adolphe Clement launched the Clement-Gladiator-Humber company in 1896 with a float capitol of 22 million French francs. The Humber...

Clement Bayard
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Having already made a fortune in the cycle industry Gustave-Adolphe Clement launched the Clement-Gladiator-Humber company in 1896 with a float capitol of 22 million French francs. The Humber...

Climax Cars
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Clinkard Alvis Special
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Cluley
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Based in Wells Street, Coventry. Formerly a bycycle maker who first produced two and then three wheelers. There first full sized car followed in 1921 lasting until 1928, when the company moved back...

Clyno Engineering Company Clyno Engineering Company, then Clyno Engineering Company (1922) Limited, was a motorcycle and car manufacturer that operated in Thrapston from 1909 to 1910 and then in...

Coaster
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Coleman and Milne
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Colossus (Jet Trike)
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Columbia + Columbia Electric.
2 photos

Columbia and Columbia Electric were produced in Hartford, Connecticut, produced by a group that included Pope, the Electric Vehicle company and Columbia Automobile Company. At the tuen of the 20rh...

Commer.
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Commer was a British manufacturer of commercial vehicles which existed from 1905 until 1979. Commer vehicles included car derived vans, light vans, medium to heavy commercial trucks, military...

Commutacar
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Compressed Air
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Concorde
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Connaught
28 photos

Conaught were a racing car and ultimately Formula One constructor. Prior to the single-seat racing cars they built a small number of road going sports cars developed on the Lea-Francis Sports...

Contrac Cobus
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Cooper
196 photos

The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in...

Cord Badge. Registered as a holding company by founder and owner of Auburn, Errett Lobban Cord. the Cord corporation held control of over 150 companies most with connections to the automobile...

Costin
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Costin was the name under which Frank Costin set up a company to produce the Costin Amigo. 1970-72. The Amigo project was not a great sucess, Frank had gambled on on the public wanting aerodynamic...

Cosworth
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Cotton Motorcycles
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Cotton (Motorcycle) AUTOMOTIVE BADGES www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157631048301272 The Cotton Motorcycle Company was founded in 1918 by Frank Willoughby Cotton and originally based...

County Commercial Cars (Tractors)
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Founded by brothers Ernest and Percy Tapp County Commercial Cars Ltd. were founded in 1929 based in Fleet, Hampshire, they began by converting Ford trucks from two to three axles, but moved in 1948...

Courage
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Cousy (no.2) F3 (1955) Engine 500cc F2 Two Stroke Race Number 19 J B Jones The Cousy was created by French ex-motorcycle racer Georges Cousy lived at Castillon la Bataille, near Bordeaux, The first...

Coventry Eagle
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Coventry Eagle (1903-39) Coventry-Eagle was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Established as a Victorian bicycle maker, the company began under the name of Hotchkiss, Mayo & Meek. The company...

Coventry Premier
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Coventry Premier The Coventry Premier companies origins began in 1875 when William Hillman and William Herbert formed Hillman & Herbert Cycle Co Ltd, as bicycle makers. They were joined in 1876...

Coventry Victor
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Coventry-Victor was a British motorcycle and car manufacturer. Originally Morton & Weaver, a proprietary engine manufacturer in Hillfields, Coventry, founded in 1904, the company changed its name...

Covert (USA) 1902-07
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he Covert Motor Vehicle Company was originally known as Byron V. Covert + Co. after its founder, established in 1902 to produce a steam automobile. This early project was abandoned in favour of a...

Covini C6W (2005-on) Engine 4200cc Audi V8 Entrant: Covini Cars C6W is an Italian 2-seat, 2-door sports coupé with a removable roof section. The project began in 1974 but was abandoned due to the...

Coyote-Foyt
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Coyote-Foyt (1977) Engine 2600cc Turbocharged V8 Entrant: Indianapolis hall of Fame Driver: Kenny Brack The winning car at the 1977 Indiapolis 500 A.J. Foyt won his first Indianapolis 500 in 1961,...

Crescent
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CRESCENT MOTORS Smethwicks only motor manufacturer moved from Walsall in 1913 their founding year and ceased manufacture in 1915, Shot taken from the radiator cowl of a 9 hp Crescent. At VSCC...

Crestmobile + Crest (USA)
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The Crest Manufacturing Co. of Cambridge, Massachusetts made and supplied all parts to fully construct an automobile. Initially a supplier of parts, they produced their first complete vehicle in...

Crompton Electric
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Crossle
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Crossley.
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Crossley was an English motor company based in Manchester area (originally in suburbs of Oppenshaw then Gorton before building a plant in Stockport) production spanned from 1906-43 and included some...

Crouch
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Crouch Cars was a company founded by JWF Crouch in Coventry, England in 1912 which manufactured cars until 1928. It was located at first in Bishop Street moving in 1914 to Cook Street.

Crowden
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harles Thomas Crowden was a sought after designer by the turn of the centuary his early carreer includes tool-setting in Bath, fire-engine design in London, safety-bicycle development, and finally,...

Cummins
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Cupra is a subsidiary brand of SEAT, Originating from SEAT's motorsport division Cupra Racing, the Cupra brand was introduced as a standalone brand in January 2018, after being used as a performance...

Cushman Parascooter
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The Cushman Airbourne Model 53, known as the Parascooter, was a kick started, with a single cylinder, 4.6 horsepower gasoline engine, with roller bearing crankshaft, with magneto ignition, driving...

Dacia
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Dacia Badge Dacia was founded in 1966 under the name Uzina de Autoturisme Pitești (UAP). The main Dacia factory was built in 1968, Mioveni), near Piteşti. Dacia acquired the tooling and basic...

Daelim Motorcycles
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Daelim Motorcycles, South Korea Daelim are a manufacturer virtually unknown in the UK, built in South Korea with production facilities in Changwon they produce around 300,000 machines a year and...

Daewoo Motors
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A company of many names, originally established in 1937 as the National Motor Company, the name was changed in November 1962 to Saenara Motor and assembled the Datsun Bluebird PL310 The first...

n 1928 Hubert "Hub" van Doorne founded the company as Commanditaire Vennootschap Hub van Doorne's Machinefabriek. His co-founder and investor was Huenges, managing director of a brewery....

DAF Trucks.
33 photos

Daihatsu.
17 photos

Formed in Japan in 1951 as a sucessor to the Hatsudoki. By the 1960's, but did not gather momentum until the 1980's. Since 1992 they have been distributed in North America by Toyota Shot on a...

Daimler
300 photos

Daimler (GB) has no connection with the German Daimler or Daimler-Benz companies. Founded in 1886 and based in Coventry, Warwickshire the company became a subsidiary of BSA in 1910 and was aquired by...

Daley (1895-1900) Iowa, USA
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Daley was the maker of disc and lever harrows. His first car appeared in 1895 a very lightweight two seater of just 195lbs. and powered at first by a rotary engine, then by a more conventional two...

Dallara
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Dallara is an Italian racing car manufacturer founded by designer Gian Paolo Dallara in 1972, near Parma, Italy, and started building chassis for sports car racing and hillclimbing, racing in the...

Darmont
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During the First World War, Robert Darmont started his business as an importer of Morgan three-wheelers from England. When peace broke out he set up an auto-making business in partnership with his...

Darracq (Fr).
40 photos

Darracq Badge Automobiles Darracq SA. was founded by Alexandre Darracq in 1896 following his sale of the Gladiator cycle factory. He established a premises in Suresnes a suburb of Paris. In 1902 he...

Darren
3 photos

Darren Mk2 (1969) Engine 2000cc S4 Production 8 # 50 Georg Kjallgren + James Littlejohn Daren Cars was first founded in 1967 with the development of the MK1 Daren which first raced in 1968, built as...

The Dastle took its name from its creator Geoffrey DAvid STanley RumbLE . He went on to build a series of Formula 3, Formula Ford and other single seaters before concentrating on the construction of...

Dauer Sportswagen
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Dauer Sportwagen GmbH was a German automotive company founded by former racing driver Jochen Dauer in Nuremberg. Initially founded as Jochen Dauer Racing in 1987, the racing team had several years of...

Paxman (Davey & Paxman)
11 photos

David Brown
15 photos

Founded in 1860 as a pattern manufacturing company, by 1873 David Brown had begun to concentrate on gear systems, and by 1898 was specialising in machine-cut gears. The company moved in 1902 to Park...

Davrian.
9 photos

Davrian Cars Davrian was the creation of Adrian Evans, a structural engineer and designer of the cars, from 1965, with co-designer and former Ferrari Formula One driver Mike Parkes. the Davrian used...

DAX A British car company founded in 1968 and based in Harlow in Essex. Official name is D.J. Sportscars International Ltd. started as a fibreglass moulding company before becoming the first British...

DB (Deutsch-Bonnet).
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DB (until 1947 known as Deutsch-Bonnet) was a French automobile maker between 1938 and 1961, based in Champigny-sur-Marne near Paris. The firm was founded by Charles Deutsch and René Bonnet....

deBolex (Motorcycle Customisers)
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Customised by Calum Pryce-Tidd of deBolex Engineering in south London

Decauville
5 photos

Narrow gauge locomotive engineeers of Petit-Bourg (Seinne et Oise), Decauville aquired the rights to the Guedon car, naming it La Voiturette, its two cylinder 3.5hp, De Dion based engine drove the...

Deckert (Aurore),
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Henri Deckert worked in France's burgeoning motor industry in the early 1900s, operating from prestigious showrooms and offices in Boulevard Haussmann in Paris with his construction and repair works...

De Dion Bouton.
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De Dion Bouton. The company was formed in 1881 after the Marquis Jules-Albert de Dion saw a scientific toy locomotive in a shop run by engineers Georges Bouton and his brother-in-law Charles...

De Dietrich
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A long established manufacturer of railway engines, based in Alsace, France, De Dietrich began building motor cars from 1896 under licence from Bollee, Vivinus and Turcat-Mery from their plants in...

Deemster
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Deemster were produced by the Ogston motor Company of Acton. A light car of 1100cc with an engine of their own making. Plans to manufacture the cars in the USA in 1923 foundered and proprietary...

de Havilland Aircraft Co,
6 photos

The de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited established by Geoffrey de Havilland initially based at Edgeware, prior to amove to Hatfield, Herts. Known for its innovation, de Havilland was responsible...

Delahaye (Fr.)
20 photos

Delahaye Badge - History AUTOMOTIVE BADGES SET www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157631048301272... Delahaye was founded in Tours, France 1894 by Emile Delahaye, begining with the...

Delage.
57 photos

Delage was a French luxury automobile and racecar company founded in 1905 by Louis Delage in Levallois-Perret near Paris; it was acquired by Delahaye in 1935 and ceased operation in 1953.

Delaugere et Clayette.
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Delaugere et Clayette of Orleans, began building cars in 1900 with a Renault engined 2 hp Tricycle. By 1902 they were building their own enginesfour cylinder of 12 and 20cv which could run on petrol...

Delin (1899-04) Belgium
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M. Delin established a successful bicycle manufacturing operation, in Belgium. Their first automobile was shown at the 1899 Brussels Exposition, powered by a flat twin engine. A light voiturette...

Dellow.
14 photos

The Dellow was produced between 1949-56 at Alvechurch, Birmingham, founded by Ken Delingpole and Ron Lowe to produce lightweight road going sports cars for the enthusiast to use in trials and hill...

Delorean
20 photos

Delorean DMC-12 (1981-82) Engine 2849 V6 Production 8583 Registration Number SIJ 1079 The only product of the Delorean motor company. The DMC-12 has gull wing doors a brushed stainless steel body...

Delta Motorsports
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Delta Motorsports were formed in 2005 are based at Silverstone with a proud motor racing and car developement history including the road going Hennessey Venom and the Grand Prix Masters series and...

De Macross
3 photos

Dubbed as Canada's first Supercar, De Macross is financed by South Korean Korean businessman Jahong Hur, Multimatic Engineering, has created a new mid-engine supercar platform composed of an aluminum...

Dennis
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Dennis Originally called Dennis Brother and founded in 1895 by brother John and Raymond Dennis to manufacture and to sell bicycles from their shop (Universal Athletic Stores) in Guildford. They made...

Derby (France)
3 photos

Deronda
2 photos

De Sanctis
4 photos

De Santis was founded by father and son, Gino and Lucio De Sanctis in Rome. The family ran a large FIAT dealership in the city and towards the end of the 1950's son Lucio started competing in Formula...

De Soto
20 photos

DeSoto DeSoto was formed as a division of the Chrysler Corporation in 1928 and ran through to 1961 ,pdel year (30th November 1960) Founded by William Chrysler in 1928 (the marques first model year...

DE Tomaso
23 photos

De Tomaso was founded by the Argentine-born Alejandro de Tomaso (1928–2003) in Modena in 1959. It originally produced various prototypes and racing cars, including a Formula One car for Frank...

Deurmekaart
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Diamond T
6 photos

Diatto
3 photos

Diatto was an Italian manufacturing company founded in 1835 in Turin by Guglielmo Diatto to make 'carriages for wealthy customers'. In 1874 Guglielmo’s sons, Giovanni and Battista Diatto, began...

Diva was a British manufacturer of sports cars from 1961 to 1966 and a subsiduary of Tunex Conversions Co set up by Don Sim in Camberwell, in 1966 Diva Cars Limited became its registered name. In...

Designed as a one off racing special in 1948 by Gordon Bashford and Olaf Poppe two members of the team that designed and developed the Land Rover. Instone enjoyed considerable success with the JAP...

In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. In the same year, he attempted to produce a steam-driven car, called the...

DNA Automotive
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DNA Automotive appears to be a US company with its UK headquarters in Redditch. The company specialises in kit conversions based on Toyota MR2 donor cars, and a variety of Ferrari based kits.

Dodge Trucks + Light Commercials (British)
22 photos

Dodge (Australia)
1 photo

Dodge (USA)
250 photos

Dodge Badge. Founded as Dodge Bothers Company by brothers Horace and John Dodge in 1900. Primarily to precision engine and chassis components to the growing Detroit Motor Industry. By 1914 Horace had...

Alfred Dodman (Steam)
2 photos

Alfred Dodman abd Company Alfred Dodman and Co. produced steam engines, traction engines, boilers and castings. Founded in 1854 and established at Highgate Works, Kings Lynn, they built their first...

Dolphin
2 photos

The Dolphin Formula Junior cars were financed by former tuna fisherman Bud Hull of San Diego, and designed by Briton John Crosthwaite; previously of Cooper and Lotus. The Fiat-engined MKIs proved...

Donnet
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Donnet Founded by Jerome Donnet and Francois Denhaut at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1914, the firm manufactured a highly successful line of patrol flying boats (the Donnet-Denhaut flying boats for the...

The Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company was established by Harry Reed in Salford in 1903, building their first motorcycle a Peaugeot engined machine in 1907, by which time the company had...

Built by Dotto Trains of Castelfranco, Italy, the Dotto Road Train was invented by Ivo Dotto in 1962, to allow people to enjoy old towns and parks in complete freedom. The family have been...

Douglas
5 photos

Douglas Motorcycles, Kingswood, Bristol Douglas was a British Motorcycle manufacturer between 1907-57 and built a range of cars between 1913-22. The company was founded by brothers William and...

Douglas Equipment
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Dragster
2 photos

Dreadnaught Motorcycle
2 photos

DRW Motor Engineering
2 photos

DS Automobiles
32 photos

DS Automobiles is a French luxury-premium vehicle formes in 2009, as part of the PSA Group. The independent DS marque was created in 2014 from the former DS subbrand and line of models of Citroën...

Ducati.
38 photos

Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. is an Italian company that designs and manufactures motorcycles. Headquartered in Bologna, Italy, Ducati is owned by Audi through its Italian subsidiary Lamborghin In 1926...

Duchess of Hamilton
2 photos

Duisenberg
4 photos

The DUKW (colloquially known as Duck) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2½-ton CCKW truck designed for use by the military during World War II and the Korean War. Designed by a...

Dunelt (Motorcycles)
2 photos

Dunsmore,
3 photos

The Dunsmore Specials were the creation of the late Bill Hines (of Stretton-on-Dunsmore) who crafted each car from scratch to the customers requirements. It is believed around 13 to 15 were built, a...

Dursley Pederson
1 photo

The Pedersen bicycle, also called the Dursley Pedersen bicycle is a bicycle that was developed by Danish inventor Mikael Pedersen and produced in the English town of Dursley. Their unusual frame is...

Dutton
3 photos

Dymaxion
2 photos

All American Eagle
6 photos

Formed by Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby in 1964 buiding Formula One and Champ Race cars.

(Peraves) E-Tracer
1 photo

Peraves E-Tracer,X-Tracer (2015) Engines 150-kilowatt-hour AC induction motor and 20-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack The Peraves E-Tracer is an electric cabin motorcycle designed by Roger...

Eagle Cars
1 photo

Eagle Specialist Vehicles
2 photos

Eagle Specialist Vehicles, Westhoughton, Bolton. Specialisise in coachbuilt Limousines and Vehicles for the Funeral Trade

Eagle Speedsters
1 photo

Formed in 1982 as leading restorers of E type Jaguars for clients, for sale and specialised racing cars. Recently they have branched out with the manufacture of the Eagle Speedster

Economobile
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EDAG Light Car
3 photos

EDAG Engineering is a German company based in Wiesbaden, The company works in the fields of product development and production plant development. The EDAG Group is one of the world's largest...

Edsel
12 photos

A short lived division of the Ford Motor Company In the early 1950's the Ford board had concluded that Lincoln rather than being as intend a rival to Cadillac was in direct competition with...

Eldon was founded in 1961 by John Thompson and brothers Peter and Brian Hampsheir, The Mk.8 (aka PRH) was the companies first volume model, built to contest in Formula Ford with a total 48 cars...

Eldiss RV
1 photo

Electric Car Company
2 photos

The ultimate green machine. Built by the Electric Car Company in 1938, this Refuse Truck was way ahead of its time. Such lories were very economical, and very very green, the batteries being...

Electric Vehicles
6 photos

Electricar
2 photos

l Elegante
2 photos

L Elegante was founded in 1903 by J. B. Mercier and based at Rue St. Ferdinand 6 in Paris. Production began in 1903 and ran to 1907. Initially models were powered by single cylinder engines of 4, 6...

Elfin (Australia)
1 photo

Elfin Sports Cars was founded in Conmurra Avenue, Edwardstown in suburban Adelaide, South Australia. by Garrie Cooper in October 1959. He would go on to be a champion race driver as well as a...

Elmore (USA) (1900-10)
1 photo

The Elmore Manufacuring Co. was established in 1893 with its head quarters in Clyde, Ohio. Founded by Harmon Von Vechten Becker and his two sons, James and Burton, originally for the production of...

Elswick
1 photo

Elswick Envoy (1983) Engine 998cc S4 Tr BMC A Series Registration Number A 70 VDA Certainally one you dont see everday, the Elswick Envoy had a long and torturous gestation. Originally designed by...

Elva.
53 photos

Elva was a sports and racing car manufacturing company based in Bexhill, then Hastings and Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1955 by Frank G. Nichols. The name comes from...

Emeryson
3 photos

Empire (Little Aristocrat) (1910-19)
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Dubbed The Little Aristocrat, Empire was established in 1910 and based in Indianapolis. The men behind Empire were Arthur Newby (President of National), Carl Fisher (Prest-O-Lite Starters), James...

Empire (Racing Cars)
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Empire Racing Cars are constructors and designers of Sprint and Hillclimb cars, the company was innaugrated in 2015 and is based at Clyse Farm, Stathe, Bridgewater, Somerset. Their first model the...

English Racing Automobiles
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Raymond Mays, and Peter Berthon in November 1933 and established in Bourne, Lincolnshire, next to Eastgate House, the long-time family home of Raymond Mays. Their aim was to establish and...

Ensign
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The Envoy was produced in 1960 by collaboration of racing driver Ian Raby of Empire Cars and Ken Cooper of Sewell and King built on a ladder type chassis of of 1 inch square tube, braced with 5...

ERF
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At the beginning of the 1930s, Britain's industry was struggling to survive the worst recession in living memory and unemployment had broken through the two million barrier. At this time insurers...

Essex (Automobiles) AUTOMOTIVE BADGES www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157631048301272 The Essex Motor Company was founded in 1918 as a wholly owned subsiduary of Hudson. Producing...

Esso (/ˈɛsoʊ/) is a trading name for ExxonMobil. Originally, the name was primarily used by its predecessor Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the original Standard Oil company in...

Eurosport (TR40 Ferrari F40)
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Evanta
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Evanta was established by Ant Anstead, designer and host of Cnanel 4 TV programme For The Love of Cars, to produce low volume specialist car. Evanta also has a collaboration with specialist tuning...

Evante
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The Evante designed and invented by George Walter Robinson with production commencing from 1987, based in Spalding, Lincolnshire. The company had evolved from Vegatune who had been restoring Lotus...

Evelio
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Evelio Is an English company, where proprietor Alex Letteriello a former Vauxhall employee has developed an electric car, based on the chassis of the Slovakian K1 Attack Roadster. It was Alex's...

Excaliber (USA) (1965-89)
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Excalibur (1965-89I AUTOMOTIVE BADGES www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157631048301272 The Excalibur badge features a broad sword, likened to the mythical and magical sword of King...

A G Excaliber
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Founded by Audronis Gestautas, AG Excaliber is a Lithuanian body and tuning company based on Mercedes Audi and BMW vehicles, whereas manyt customised tuners and body builder look over the top....

Excelsior
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(British) Excelsior Badge Excelsior, based in Coventry, was a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker. They were Britain’s first motorcycle manufacturer, starting production of their own...

E-zee Automotive
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In around 1990 Jim Daughtry founded E-zee Automotive based in Exeter with the idea of filling this perceived gap in the market under the brand name Malibu, only one model was offered based on Renault...

Facel Vega
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Facel, (Forges et Ateliers de Constructions d'Eure-et-Loir), was founded 20 December 1939 by Bronzavia, a French manufacturer of military aircraft to make special components under technical director...

Fafnir
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Fairley-Mercury
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The Fairley Mercury was built as a hillclimb special in 1953 by Reg Phillips using principally wartime surplus. He took an ex-military Ford Mercury V8 and Austin 10 front and rear axles constructing...

Fairthorpe.
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Founded by Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, Fairthorpe cars were produced in Chalfont St. Giles between 1954 and 1961, moving to Denham, Buckinghamshire 1961-73. Never a volume producer, the first...

Falcoln
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Falcom Shells Badge Falcon Shells was founded by Peter Pellandine in January 1957, bringing with him from Ashley Laminates the 750 shell, to be called the Falcon mk.1 for the Austin Seven SWB....

FAMO, short for Fahrzeug- und Motoren-Werke (Automobile and Engine Works) was a German vehicle manufacturer in the early 20th century.

Established in the early 1980's and based in Long Eaton, Notts. Specialising in custom and styling interior and exteriors.

Farbio
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Fargo Badge The Fargo Motor Company was founded in Chicago in 1913 building trucks there until 1922. In 1928 Chrysler bought the business and created their own line of Fargo truck, shortly...

Fahr Tractors (Germany)
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Farley JAP Special
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Created in 1947, and rebuilt in 1955 by Dr. John Farley as a sprint car and appropriatly title the Farley Special this was always a very fast car within its class powered by a Jap engine with twin...

Farmall Tractors
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Farmall was a model name and later a brand name for tractors manufactured by the American company International Harvester (IH). The Farmall name was usually presented as McCormick-Deering Farmall and...

Fergus Engineering
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The Fergus Mosquito kit car was inspired by the Aston Martin Ulster 0f 1935, The donor mechanics are from the Morris Marina and was very well executed, and rides on proper 18in wire wheels and dummy...

Ferguson
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Harry Ferguson started in the tractor business selling Waterloo Boy tractors (renamed Overtime) in Ireland and England during World War I. While working with farmers to maximize the use of their new...

Ferrari Replica's
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Ferrari.
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Ferrari Founded in 1929 by Enzo Ferrari, as Scuderia Ferrari, as a sponsor for amateur drivers and the preparation of various Alfa Romeo racing cars until 1938. In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by...

Fiat
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Fiat Badge. Fiat is an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli. Fiat is Italy's largest car manufacturer and the...

Fiberfab
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Fiberfab was an Ameican company founded in 1964 by Warren Goodwin a former sportscar racer, his earlier company Sports Car Engineering, had manufactured Microplas Mistral bodies under license and...

(Field) Marshall.
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Field-Marshall is a brand of farm tractor which was manufactured by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. Field-Marshalls were in production from 1945 to 1957....

Fiesler (Aircraft)
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Fiorano
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The Type 48 Corsa Spyder was designed Alan Hooper, initially as a one off sportscar, evoking a 1948 Ferrari 166 Spyder. The car is based on a Triumph Spitfire donor with a GRP body. After receiving...

Fisher
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Fittipaldi
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The team originally ran as Copersucar-Fittipaldi (1975-77) debuting with a single car in the 1975 Argentine GP for Wilson Fittipaldi, Wilson crashed on lap 13 though brother Emerson went on to win...

5 Spurs, high performance and engineering innovators a USA based company with British and European agents.

FL were built in France (1908-14). Originally built by H. De la Fresnaye of Paris and Levallouis-Perret, an FL light car was produced from 1910 in the Otto works.

Fleetwood RV
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Fleetwood RV, Inc. is a producer of recreational vehicles (RVs), founded in 1950 by when John C. Crean formed Coach Specialties Company in southern California originally as a manufacturer of window...

Flint (USA)
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The Flint Automobile Company of Flint, Michigan was founded by A B S Hardy in 1901to produce the 8hp two seater Roadster which came with tiller steering as a left or right hand drive position. Only...

Fluer de Lys
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The Fluer de Lys was the brainchild of a Newark pie manufacturer, Andreas Liveras who required a suitably vintage looking vehicle to deliver his wears. Not wanting the reliabilty problems that could...

FN (Belgium) (1899-35)
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FN (Belgium) (1899-35) The Belgian Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre t better known simply as "FN" or "Fabrique Nationale" was founded at Herstal on the edge of Liege in...

Foden
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Foden Badge Foden Trucks was a British truck and bus manufacturing company which has its origins in Sandbach, Cheshire in 1856. PACCAR acquired the company in 1980, and ceased to use the marque name...

Fonmetal
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Fondmetal S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of alloy wheels, founded in 1972 by Gabriele Rumi. A Formula One constructor of the same name, also owned by Rumi, competed in the 1991 and 1992 seasons,...

Footwork-Arrows
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Footwork Arrows was the name of a Formula One motor racing team, competing during the mid-1990s. Japanese businessman Wataru Ohashi, who was the president of Footwork Express Co., Ltd., a Japanese...

Force Racing, Brereton
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Force racing cars are based at Brerton Cross, Rugeley, Staffordshire, a specialist manufacturer of composite racing cars for hillclimbs and sprints.

Force India
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Sahara Force India Formula One Team, the trading name of Force India Formula One Team Limited, is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium...

Ford (France).
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Ford SAF (Ford Société Anonyme Française) was the French subsidiary of the American automaker Ford Motor Company, which existed under various names between 1916 and 1954, when Ford sold the...

Ford USA
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Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to...

Ford Tractors
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Ford UK + Europe
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Ford of Britain (officially Ford Motor Company Limited, is a British wholly owned subsidiary of Ford of Europe. itself a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Its business started in 1909 and has its...

Ford (Germany)
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Ford Australia.
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Ford Australia is the Australian subsidiary of United States-based automaker Ford Motor Company that was founded in Geelong, Victoria, in 1925 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited....

Ford (South Africa).
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Fordson
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Foreman
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Formula E
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Formula Vauxhall Lotus
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Foster - William Foster + Co
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William Foster & Co Ltd was an agricultural machinery company based in Lincoln, normally referred to as Fosters. Founded by William Foster in 1846 as a small scale manufacturer of mill machinery...

Four Winds RV
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Parent company Thor Industries Inc, is an American manufacturer of recreational vehicles (RVs). selling motorhomes and trailers through its subsidiaries brands including Airstream, Heartland RV,...

Fowler of Leeds
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ounded by John Fowler as John Fowler + Company Engineers and based in Leatherly Road, Hunslett, Leeds. The company became manufacturers of traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as...

Francis Barnett
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Francis-Barnett was an English motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1919, by Gordon Inglesby Francis and Arthur Barnett, and based in Lower Ford Street, Coventry, England, The company developed a...

Franziss Special
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Franziss Special (1928:1918) Engine 8200cc Race Number 229 Roger Sweet Created by owner driver Roger Sweet, in the traditions of VSCC aero engined specials. The is a Franziss Special believed to be...

Frazer Metro
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Frazer Metro by Tickford (1981) Engine 1295cc S4 Number 16 (of 26) Registration Number YLB 632 X The cars started life as standard BL Metro 1300s with a tuned head the cars were customised by...

Frazer Nash
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The company was founded in 1922 by Archibald Frazer-Nash who had, with Henry Ronald Godfrey founded and run the GN Cyclecar Company. The company was established in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey,...

Freightliner
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In the 1930s, Consolidated Freightways (CF) decided to produce their own truck line from reconstructed Fageols, in order to produce heavy duty trucks to tackle the steep mountain slopes of Western...

Freight Rover
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The company was created as a division of the Land Rover Group of British Leyland (BL) in 1981, creating a new single brand for BL's panel van business. Under later company organisation changes...

Frisky
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Captain Raymond Flowers originally attempted to set up and build a micro-car in Egypt but plans were halted by the Suez crisis. On return to England he and partner Gordon Bedson persuaded Henry...

Frogeye Car Company
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FRS (Motorsport)
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The FRS is built by FRS Motorsport of Leeds, initially as a competition car, it is now also road legal. Under the skin is a space frame chassis that hosts a 1200cc Suzuki motorcycle engine driving...

FSO (Polski-Fiat) SET www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157645101439362 FSO (Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych) commonly known as FSO, was a Polish automobile manufacturer, located in Warsaw....

FTF is an abbreviation of Floor Truck Fabriek, based in Hilversum, Holland the company began making their own specialised trucks from 1955. Floor began by importing Mack trucks in CKD form for...

Fuldamobil - Nobel
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Fuldamobil (1950-69) Engine 192cc Single Cylinder 2 Stroke Conceived by Norbert Stevenson, a freelance-journalist , who had completed one term as a mechanical engineering student. The design...

FWD (US Truck)
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The F.W.D. Model B, built by the Four Wheel Drive Co. of Clintonville, Wisconsin, Rated as a 3-tonner, the F.W.D. had a Wisconsin four-cylinder petrol engine with a three-speed gearbox and a...

Gaillardet
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Built by the Societe Francaise D Automobiles, Puteaux (SFA) that only survived the years 1898-01, cars were built on the banks of The River Seine on Quai National in Puteaux to the West of Paris and...

The department store A.W. Gamage Limited, founded in 1878, began manufacturing automobiles in Holborn in 1903 through to 1905, these automobiles were based on chassis built by Lacoste and Battmann of...

Gamma Goat
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Gardner Douglas
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Gardner Douglas is a British low volume sports car manufacturer, based near Nottingham Their models include cars based on the A C Ace, A C Cobra, Lola T70

Garelli
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Garratt
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Gartrac
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Before the arrival of the Mark 1 Escort, Fords rally presence relied on the Anglia and Cortina. But it was with the Escort that the blue oval ignited the world of international rallying. From its...

GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobiny Zavod) Formed under a 1929 agreement between the Soviet Union and the Ford Motor Company, under which the Soviets agreed to purchase $ 13 million worth of Automobiles and...

Gebhardt
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The Gebhardt C91 was the creation of brothers Gunther and Fritz Gerhardt, producers of high speed conveyors. Initially Gerbhardt were active in seasons 1983 and 1987 with the JC842 and JC843 scoring...

GEM Race Cars
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Gemini
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Georges Richard.
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Georges Richard were based at Ivry-Port, Seine. Originally producing photographic equipment before diversifying into bicycles. In 1901 Herni Brasier left Mors to join brothers Georges and Max...

Genesis.
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In much the same way as Toyota created the Lexus marque, Gensis was created as a stand alone brand by Hyundai in November 2015. Genesis models are designed in Rüsselsheim, Germany, Namyang, South...

Gentry
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Gentry Badge Gentry was founded by Roger Blockley and started producing cars commercially from 1974. The first premises were in Barwell, Leicestershire and became RMB Motors. The Gentry was sold as a...

Georgie Boy RV
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Gilbern
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Gilbern Sports Cars (Components) Ltd. (1959-73) Llantwit Fadre, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, South Wales The Gilbern company was founded by butcher Giles Smith and a German engineer Bernard Freise the name...

Gilby (Engineering)
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Gilera Motorcycles.
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Gilera is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded in Arcore in 1909 by Giuseppe Gilera. In 1969, the company was purchased by Piaggio.

Gillow
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Ginetta
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Ginetta Badge Ginetta was founded in 1958 by the four Walklet Brothers (Bob, Ivor, Trevers and Douglas) and based in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Moving to Witham, Essex in 1962 and from 1972-74 from larger...

(Dulon) Gipsy
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Givaudan Motorcycles (Fr.)
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Claude Givaudan was based in Lyon, France, the company built only a small number of motorcycles, instead using the motorcycle to develope aero engines. Gavaudan primary interest was in aeronautics...

GKN (Defence)
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Gladiator.
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The Sociere Gladiator was originally formed by Paul Aucoq and Alexandre Darracq to manufacture inexpensive bicycles. The partners were bought out by Harvey du Cros and Ernest Hooley who added light...

Glas - Goggomobil.
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Manufacturers of agricultural machines, Glas and his son Andreas developed their small car prototype with Isetta- style front-opening door in the Autumn of 1954

Gloster Saro
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GMC GMC is Genral Motors is a manufacturer of trucks, vans, military vehicles, and Sport utility vehicles marketed in North America and the Middle East by General Motorssecond largest division...

GN East Hill, Wandsworth, london SW18 GN SET www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623789427626... Founded by Godfrey and Nash in 1910 as a cyclecar manufacturer. By 1919 they had become the...

Gobron Brillie
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Godiva (Payne + Bates)
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Godiva Dos-a-Dos (1900-01) Engine 7hp two cylinder Registration Number BWK 1 Built by the Payne and Bates Company, Foleshill Road, Coventry who also built the similar Stonebow. The Dos-Dos is a...

Golden Arrow
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Golf Woody
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Golf Woody (2005) Production 40 Goodwood Estates golf club has thes rather special Golf Buggies. Based on the Brakenvan a 1934 design by Charles March's grandfather the Duke of Richmond the...

Goliath Mobile Bomb
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Gordini
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Amédée Gordini tuned cars and competed in motor races since the 1930s. In 1946, Gordini introduced the first cars named after him, Fiat-engined single-seaters raced by him and Jose Scaron,...

Gordon Keeble
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Gordon Keeble The badge came about during the prototypes initial photo shoot when a pet tortoise wandered into shot the it was decided to go with the tortoise as an ironic gesture to the animals...

Gould (Racecars)
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Gould Racing is a British motorsport company, specialising in racing car manufacture and engineering founded by David Gould and based in Newbury, Berks. Although involved in several branches of...

GRD (Group Racing Developements)
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GRD (Group Racing Developements) was a short-lived British constructor of racing cars. It was formed in 1971 with a large percentage of staff coming from those made redundant from the closure of...

Grafton
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Graham-Paige see also Paige
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The Graham company logo included profiles of the three brothers and was used in insignia on the cars including badges and taillight lens Graham-Paige was an American automobile manufacturer founded...

Grannie
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Greeves
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Greeves Motorcycles was founded by Bert Greeves MBE in 1951, as a spin off of Invacar. The Invacar came about from an idea of bert Greeves of fitting the lawnmower engine to his disabled cousin'...

Green (Rollers)
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Thomas Green and Co. were founded in 1835 in Leeds making wirework. In 1855 they began making lawn mowers and in 1885 moved into steam powered trams, they progressed into the manufacture of steam...

Grenville Steam Carriage
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Grinall (Specialist Cars)
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The Grinnall Specialist Cars Ltd. (often referred as Grinnall Cars) is an automobile and motorcycles maker founded by Mark Grinnall in United Kingdom. This company mainly produced three-wheelers. It...

Grumann Olson - Morgan Olson
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Morgan Olson is an American company that produces aluminum walk-in vans, founded in 1946 by Jimmy Olson in Long Beach, New York Previously owned by Northrop Grumman and doing business as Grumman...

GSM (Glass Motor Sports)
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GSM (Glass Sport Motors) was founded in Capetown, South Africa by Bob van Niekerk and Willie Meissner, in 1958 after Meissner, on a trip to England came across fibreglass moulding, he invited...