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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | (business) Birmingham 1899 |
| Founder | Frederick Lanchester George Lanchester Frank Lanchester |
| Defunct | dormant since 1955 but currently listed as 'active' |
| Fate | purchased by BSA group 1930 |
| Successor | The Daimler Company Limited |
| Headquarters | (to 1930) Armourer Mills Birmingham , England |
Number of locations | (to 1930) Works: Armourer Mills Sparkbrook Birmingham Showrooms: 88 Deansgate Manchester 95 New Bond Street London |
Key people | (to 1930) Founders Trevor Hamilton Barnsley Whitfield brothers Pugh brothers J S Taylor |
| Products | Motor vehicles |
| Owner | Jaguar Land Rover |
| Parent | The Daimler Company Limited (1930–present) |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
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| Product type | Motor vehicles |
|---|---|
| Owner | Jaguar Land Rover (since 2013)[2] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Introduced | 1895 |
| Discontinued | 1955 but company still exists |
| Markets | International |
| Previous owners |
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The Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a British car manufacturer in active trade between 1899 and 1955. Though the Lanchester Motor Company Limited is still registered as an active company and accounts are filed each year, the marque has been dormant since. As of 2014 it is marked as "non-trading".
The Lanchester company was located until early 1931 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and afterwards at Sandy Lane, Coventry England. It was purchased by the BSA Group at the end of 1930, after which its cars were made by Daimler on Daimler's Coventry sites. So, with Daimler, Lanchester became part of Jaguar Cars in 1960.
In 1990 Ford Motor Company bought Jaguar Cars and it remained in their ownership, and from 2000 accompanied by Land Rover, until they sold both Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors in 2008, who created Jaguar Land Rover as a subsidiary holding company for them. In 2013, Jaguar Cars was merged with Land Rover to form Jaguar Land Rover Limited, and the rights to the Lanchester car brand were transferred to the newly formed British multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover.[2]
- ^ TATA Motors (2021). The Lanchester Motor Company Limited 2021.
- ^ a b "Trade mark number UK00000410560". Intellectual Property Office. Crown (UK Government). Retrieved 26 January 2018.