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Encyclopedia > List of British companies

This is a list of companies from the United Kingdom.
See lists of companies for lists of companies from other countries.
See FTSE 100 Index for the top 100 quoted companies.
External link: Companies House: Select and access Company Information A corporation is a legal person that exists quite separately from the natural persons who work with and for it. ... This is an incomplete list of lists of companies. ... The Financial Times Stock Exchange Index of 100 Leading Shares, or FTSE 100 Index (pronounced footsie), is a share index of the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. ...

Former companies, including acquired and merged ones

Company Name: 3i PLC Company Logo: Company Type: Public Founded: 1945 Created by a syndicate of several British banks]] Location: [London]], England| Key people: Philip Yea, CEO Baroness Hogg, Chairman Industry = Venture Capital and Private Equity Homepage = [1] 3i Group PLC is a venture capital and private equity firm quoted... 1999 AC Cobra 427 AC Cars Group Ltd. ... A Dennis Trident servicing in Kowloon Motor Bus of Hong Kong A SBS Transit Dennis Trident in Singapore Alexander Dennis (formerly known as TransBus International) is one of Britains largest bus builders. ... Alliance & Leicester plc is a British bank, formerly a building society. ... Alliance UniChem plc wholesales, distributes, and retails pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout the United Kingdom. ... AMVESCAP plc is an investment management company based in London, England. ... Anglo American plc is a world-wide group of companies, originally founded in South Africa as a mining enterprise but now extending into other areas. ... Anglo Swiss Capital Ltd is a small British property development and investment company headquartered in central London. ... The entrance to ARMs headquarters in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) Ltd is a microprocessor design company headquartered in England, founded in 1990 by Hermann Hauser. ... An Arriva bus arriving at Telford Central An Arriva train in North Wales An Arriva train in Denmark Arriva plc is a British based public transport operator headquartered in Sunderland. ... Art of Memory Ltd. ... AstraZeneca PLC (LSE: AZN), is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the merger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group PLC. Zeneca was part of Imperial Chemical Industries prior to a demerger in 1993. ... For other uses, see ASDA (disambiguation). ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... The Aston Martin Lagonda was a luxury four-door saloon built by Aston Martin of Newport Pagnell, England, between 1976 and 1989. ... For Aviva Incorporated, operating as Aviva Natural Health Solutions, see Aviva Inc. ... BAA plc (LSE: BAA) is the owner and operator of seven major United Kingdom airports and operator of several airports worldwide, making the company one of the largest transport companies in the world. ... Systems plc is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ... Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of The General Electric Company (GEC). ... British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television) and the world. ... Barclays Bank headquarters One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf Barclays plc (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS, TYO: 8642 ) is the fourth largest bank in the United Kingdom. ... Bentleys winged B badge and hood ornament Bentley Motors Limited is a British based manufacturer of luxury automobiles and Grand Tourers. ... For the 1930s airline of similar name see British Airways Ltd British Airways (LSE: BAY, NYSE: BAB) is the largest airline of the United Kingdom. ... British American Tobacco (BAT) is the second largest cigarette company in the world. ... BHP Billiton is the worlds largest mining company. ... The BOC Group is the official name of the multi-national industrial gas company more commonly known as BOC. As of 2003, BOC has over 44,000 employees on six continents, with sales of over £4. ... Boots Group plc (LSE: BOOT), known as Boots, is the dominant pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. ... Bowens Logo Bowens International was originally founded as Bowens Camera Service Company, a London based camera repair company, in 1923 which by the 1950s had grown to be one of the largest in Europe. ... BP plc (LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 ), originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of the four vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and gasoline Super Majors in the world, along with Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total. ... Bradford & Bingley is a British Bank, which was formerly a building society. ... Brintons is a British manufacturer of carpets. ... For the 1930s airline of similar name see British Airways Ltd British Airways (LSE: BAY, NYSE: BAB) is the largest airline of the United Kingdom. ... British Land is one of the largest property development and investment companies in the United Kingdom. ... British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly two companies, Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, which merged) is a company that operates the most popular subscription television service in the Ireland. ... BT Group plc (also known as British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (and previously as British Telecom) is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. ... A ladies Burberry handbag in the companys signature check pattern Burberry is a U.K. based outfitter, manufacturing clothing and other apparel, often in a distinctive check pattern, that has become one of its most common copied trademarks. ... Cable and Wireless (LSE: CW.) is a British telecommunications company. ... Cadbury Schweppes plc is a confectionery and beverage company with its headquarters in London. ... A Cameron Z105 balloon. ... Carnival Corporation & PLC is an Anglo-American corporation which is the worlds largest cruise operator, comprising 13 cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Windstar Cruises and Seabourn Cruise Line in North America; P & O Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village and Swan Hellenic in the... Centrica plc (LSE: CNA) is a large multinational company, based in the UK but also with interests in North America and Europe. ... It has been suggested that Co-op (supermarket) be merged into this article or section. ... The British company Compass Group is one of the largest food service businesses in the world. ... Corus Group plc, normally referred to simply as Corus, (LSE: CS., Euronext: CORS, NYSE: CGA) is one of the worlds largest producers of steel and aluminium, headquartered in London, United Kingdom. ... A crown group is a living monophyletic group or clade, consisting of the last common ancestor of all living examples, plus all of its descendants. ... Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) is one of the UKs largest media companies and has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio. ... Diageo plc, the largest multinational beer, wine and spirits company in the world, listed on the London Stock Exchange was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness plc and Grand Metropolitan plc. ... The United Kingdom based DSG International plc (formerly Dixons Group plc) is one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe. ... People whose family name is or was Dunlop include James Dunlop (1793-1848), Scottish-Australian astronomer John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor and founder of the Dunlop rubber company John Thomas Dunlop, United States administrator Sir Edward Weary Dunlop, Australian war hero Douglas Morton Dunlop, Scottish-American professor of history and... The easyGroup, founded in 1998, is the holding company controlling the “easy” ventures; it is privately owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou. ... easyJet is a low cost airline officially known as easyJet Airline Company Limited, based at London Luton Airport. ... EMAP plc is a British media company, specialising in the production of magazines, and the organization of business events and conferences. ... The French Connection. ... Focus A UK chain of DIY stores. ... Gallagher is a common surname derived from the Irish name Ó Gallchobhair. ... GKN plc is a British engineering company formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and tracing its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the industrial revolution. ... GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE: GSK NYSE: GSK) is a British based pharmaceutical, biologicals, and healthcare company. ... Greene King is a brewery in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK. There is a visitor centre next door to the brewery. ... GUS may refer to: Gravis Ultrasound, and sound card for PCs GUS plc, the owners of Argos, Homebase and Burberry Główny UrzÄ…d Statystyczny, Central Statistical Office, the national statistics office in Poland Guss is a cafe in Canberra, Australia Sir Gus is a badass. ... Group headquarters on The Mound, Edinburgh HBOS Office at Trinity Road, Halifax HBOS plc is the holding company of the HBOS Group, formed on the 10 September 2001 by, and named after, the principals involved in the merger of Halifax plc, the former Halifax Building Society, with Bank of Scotland. ... Hilton Group plc is a British based hotel and leisure company. ... For other uses, see HSBC (disambiguation). ... Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is a British chemical company, based in London. ... Imperial Tobacco PLC is the largest cigarette manufacturer in the UK (but the second largest UK based tobacco company by global sales after British American Tobacco), second largest in Germany and fourth worldwide, following its purchase of Reemtsma Zigarettenfabriken, adding brands such as Davidoff, Peter Stuyvesant and West to its... ITV plc is a British media company which operates the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom. ... Jaguar Cars is a British automobile manufacturer. ... Jardine Matheson, often called Jardines, is a multinational corporation that is legally based in Bermuda and which trades on the London and Singapore stock exchanges. ... John Taylor Bellfounders is, as of 2004, the worlds largest bell foundry, based in Loughborough, England. ... Johnson Matthey plc is a British chemical company which has its headquarters near Trafalgar Square in central London. ... Kangol is a English clothing company, especially famous for its headwear. ... KESA Electricals Plc, is a British electrical retailer formed in 2003 by demerger from Kingfisher plc. ... Kingfisher plc is a UK high-street retailer formed in 1982 by the buyout of Woolworths by Paternoster Stores Ltd. ... Land Rover was the name of one of the first British civilian all-terrain utility vehicles, first produced by Rover in 1947. ... The Ford Motor Company (usually called Ford; sometimes called FoMoCo), (NYSE: F) is a multinational corporation that manufactures automobiles. ... Land Securities Group plc is a leading British property development and investment company headquartered in central London. ... Laura Ashley (1925- 17 September 1985) was a British designer, born Laura Mountney in Wales. ... Legal & General Group Plc is a British based financial services company that provides life, health and other insurance, as well as pensions and investments. ... Lloyds TSB Group plc is a group of financial services companies, based in the United Kingdom, which was created in 1995 following the merger of the TSB Group and the Lloyds Bank Group. ... Lonsdale can mean: the town of Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancashire, UK Lonsdale, the valley of the River Lune, UK Lonsdale hundred the clothing brand Lonsdale (brand) the car Lonsdale (car) the town near Adelaide Lonsdale, South Australia Lonsdale, a college of Lancaster University Lonsdale College, a fictional college of the University... Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, England. ... Lunn Poly is the largest chain of travel agents in the United Kingdom. ... The Marconi Corporation plc is a radio, telecommunication, and internet equipment manufacturing company, formerly known as The General Electric Company (GEC) and Marconi plc. ... The General Electric Company plc (GEC) is a British company that was renamed Marconi plc on November 30, 1999 after its defence unit Marconi Electronic Systems was divested and sold to British Aerospace. ... Marks and Spencer plc (known also as M&S and sometimes colloquially as Marks and Sparks) is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom by sales. ... Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC is an engineering company based in Coventry, England (note Manganese Bronze is also one of many possible alloys called bronze). ... MFI Furniture Group plc, usually referred to simply as MFI, is a national British furniture retailer. ... MG Rover was the last independent mass-production producer of the British motor industry. ... Morrisons store in Morecambe, Lancashire Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc (LSE: MRW) is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ... National Express Group plc is a UK based transport group, operating airport, bus and rail services in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. ... National Grid Transco was a United Kingdom based company born out of the merger between National Grid Company plc and Lattice Group plc in October 2002. ... One of the major UK mutual building societies remaining today is the Nationwide Building Society, with headquarters in Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England. ... A mutual organization (or society) is a cooperative organization (which is often, but not always, a company or business) based on the principle of mutuality. ... Northern Rock is a British bank based in Newcastle Upon Tyne in Northern England. ... NTL Incorporated is a US listed British company providing cable services (internet, telephone and television) prodominantly in the United Kingdom. ... The O2 plc Logo O2 plc (known prior to March 2005 as mmO2 and usually stylised as O2, like the chemical symbol) is a British telecommunications company specialising in mobile phones, previously part of BT Group plc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Oldroyd Publishing Group Ltd is a British company which produces advertisement funded publications for estate agents and doctors practices. ... Prudential plc is a United Kingdom based financial services company. ... The Rank Group Plc was established on December 22, 1995 as a public limited company in England and Wales and in October 1996 it became a holding company owning all the outstanding shares of the Rank Organisation. ... Reebok International Limited (NYSE: RBK) is a Fortune 500 company and producer of athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories. ... Adidas is a German sports apparel manufacturer, part of the Adidas-Salomon corporation. ... Reed Elsevier is a leading global publisher and information provider. ... Remarkable is a UK company that makes stationery products out of recycled products. ... Rio Tinto is a multinational mining and resources group founded originally in 1873. ... Rolls-Royce plc (LSE: RR.) (also known as Rolls-Royce Aero Engines) is the second-largest aircraft engine maker in the world, behind General Electrics GE Aircraft Engines division. ... The Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE: RBS) is one of Scotlands four national clearing banks and one of the oldest in the UK, founded in Edinburgh in 1727 by Royal Charter. ... Royal Dutch Shell plc/Koninklijke Nederlandse Shell NV is a major Anglo-Dutch energy company, one of the four largest Super Majors (vertically integrated private-sector oil, natural gas, and petrol companies) in the world, along with BP, ExxonMobil, and Total. ... Royal & SunAlliance are a British insurance company, based in Liverpool. ... Royal Mails logo Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. ... The Sage Group plc is a leading UK based supplier of accounting, CRM and business management software as well as related services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). ... J Sainsbury HQ in Holborn Circus J Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsburys, which is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ... Save a Cup Recycling Company administers the Save a Cup scheme which was set up by the vending, foodservice and plastics industries to collect the millions of polystyrene cups used in the United Kingdom and recycle them into useful products such as: Pencils Pens Notepad Holders Ice Scrappers Bins External... Scottish & Newcastle is one of the worlds leading brewers, and the largest British brewing company (unless London-based SABMiller, which does very little business in the UK, is counted as British). ... Scottish & Southern Energy Plc is a gas, electricity supply and telecoms company headquartered in Perth, Scotland. ... SMG plc is a Scottish media company. ... Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc is a British manufacturer of pharmaceuticals including Adderall XR, Carbatrol, and Fosrenol. ... Smith & Nephew is a British medical devices company headquartered in London and active internationally. ... Smiths Group is a British engineering company involved in wide-ranging speciality engineering. ... Somerfield is the 5th largest food retailer in the United Kingdom as of 2005, operating as Somerfield Stores Ltd. ... A Stagecoach West Scotland vehicle in the UK Bus corporate livery. ... Standard Chartered Bank is a British bank headquartered in London with operations in many countries , especially in Asia and Africa. ... Standard Life is Europes largest mutual company, although that could be set to change, with demutualisation expected during 2006. ... The Swire Group is a transnational corporation headquartered in London, England. ... Tate & Lyle PLC is a UK based multinational food manufacturer and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE. It is a major producer of refined sugar, starches, animal feed and other food ingredients with global operations. ... Tesco PLC (LSE: TSCO) is a United Kingdom-based international supermarket chain. ... Telewest (formerly Telewest Broadband and Telewest Communications) is one of the two major cable companies in the United Kingdom. ... Tomkins plc is a British based engineering company headquartered in west London. ... Triumph Logo (1978 version) 1934 Triumph Gloria Six 1937 Triumph Dolomite Roadster 1974 Triumph GT6 Coupé The Triumph Motor Company had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann (1863-1951) and Moritz (Maurice) Schulte started producing Triumph bicycles in Coventry, England. ... TVRs logo TVR 280i TVR S series 1986 TVR 350i 1986 TVR Chimaera TVR Cerbera TVR is a manufacturer of sports cars, located in Blackpool in Lancashire, England. ... Ulster Television plc is a Broadcasting and New Media company in Northern Ireland. ... UMBRO is a brand of apparel, shoes, and equipment for football (soccer). ... Unilever (Euronext: UNA, LSE: ULVR, NYSE: UN) is an Anglo-Dutch company that owns many of the worlds consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. ... Uniross is an international company, that started in 1968 in the United Kingdom. ... Vauxhall is an inner city area of south London in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... The Vestey Group (Vestey Group Ltd) (formerly Vestey Brothers) is a privately owned UK group of companies, comprised of an international food product business (that includes meats, dairy products, frozen vegetables,bakery products, food services and trading) and significant cattle ranching and sugar cane farming interests in Brazil and Venezuela. ... Virgin Atlantic Airways (IATA: VS, ICAO: VIR, and Callsign: Virgin), usually referred to as Virgin Atlantic, is one of the airlines of Richard Bransons Virgin Group, operating long-haul routes between London and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Australia. ... Vodafone Group plc (LSE: VOD, NYSE: VOD, FWB:VOD) is a British mobile phone operator headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England, is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover, with equity interests in 26 countries and Partner Networks (networks in which it has no equity stake) in... This article is about the retail chain; for people of that name, see William Henry Smith. ... Glenfiddich whisky range William Grant & Sons Ltd. ... Wolseley can mean: Wolseley plc, A British company formerly known for car manufacture, now active in other areas Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada Wolseley, a provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada Wolseley, South Africa, a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... ... // About Woolworths Group plc is a general merchandise business in the United Kingdom. ... Xrefer offers subscription-based online reference content. ... Olivetti Lettera 22, 1950 Ing. ... AEI can stand for: American Enterprise Institute, a think tank founded in 1943 whose stated mission is to support the foundations of freedom - limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense. ... The Ariel was an English automobile manufactured in Birmingham from 1900 to 1915, and again from 1922 to 1925. ... The Austin Motor Company was founded in Longbridge, Birmingham by Herbert Austin, the former manager of the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company in 1905. ... For alternate usages of BEA see Bea (disambiguation) Hawker-Siddeley Trident 1C (G-ARPC), built 1962 and destroyed in a fire at London (Heathrow) Airport in 1975. ... The Vestey Group (Vestey Group Ltd) (formerly Vestey Brothers) is a privately owned UK group of companies, comprised of an international food product business (that includes meats, dairy products, frozen vegetables,bakery products, food services and trading) and significant cattle ranching and sugar cane farming interests in Brazil and Venezuela. ... Bristol Aeroplane Company logo The Bristol Aeroplane Company (formerly British and Colonial Aeroplane Company) was a major British aircraft company which, in 1959, merged with several major British aircraft companies, to become the British Aircraft Corporation and later still part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems. ... British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ... The British Aircraft Corporation, or BAC, was a British aircraft manufacturer, formed from the forced merger of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric, Vickers-Armstrong and Hunting Aircraft Company in 1959. ... British Caledonian was an airline formed from the merger in 1970 of British United Airways and Caledonian Airways. ... The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company which was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. ... British Leyland corporate logo old BLMC share The British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968. ... BMC rosette logo old BMC share A preserved BMC ambulance. ... The British Motor Corporation (BMC) was a car company, formed by the merger of the Austin and Morris companies in 1952. ... Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ... British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British Engineering company, founded in 1894 to manufacture in the UK, under licence, products patented by an American company (which was to become General Electric). ... The Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) was a British manufacturer of military equipment and vehicles. ... Logo of Daimler 1898 Daimler car in Bristol Industrial Museum, England This article is about the British automobile manufacturer. ... Dan-Air was an airline based in the United Kingdom that commenced operations in 1953. ... David Brown Limited was a British engineering company, principally engaged in the manufacture of gears and gearboxes. ... GKN plc is a British engineering company formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and tracing its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the industrial revolution. ... G-Plan was a pioneering range of furniture in the United Kingdom, produced by E Gomme Ltd. ... English Electric was a 20th century British industrial manufacturer with a base in electric motors that expanded to include railway locomotives and aviation before eventual inclusion as part of GEC. // History The English Electric Company was formed in 1918 and, during that year and 1919, acquired control of Dick, Kerr... The General Electric Company plc (GEC) is a British company that was renamed Marconi plc on November 30, 1999 after its defence unit Marconi Electronic Systems was divested and sold to British Aerospace. ... The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ... Hawker-Siddeley was a British aircraft manufacturing company. ... Joseph Lyons and Co. ... Lanchester is a village in County Durham, England. ... Leyland Motors is a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. ... The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. ... The brewer Marston, Thompson and Evershed plc is known familiarly as Marstons after its founder, John Marston. ... Metropolitan-Vickers, or Metrovick, was a British heavy industrial firm of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. ... MG is a British marque that traditionally has produced sports cars from 1924 to 2005. ... Morris Motor logo, from a UK Royal Mail van 1927 Morris Cowley 1928 Morris Minor Saloon 1946 Morris Ten Series M 1953 Morris Minor Series 2 1971 Morris 1000 Traveller The Morris Motor Company was a former British car manufacturing company. ... Napier & Son were one of the most important English aircraft engine manufacturers in the early to mid 20th Century. ... Joseph Henry Nettlefold (September 19, 1827 - November 22, 1881) was a British industrialist, the Nettlefold in Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds. ... The Nuffield Organisation was an automobile manufacturing company in the United Kingdom. ... Arthur Keen (January 23, 1835 - February 8, 1915) was a British entrepreneur, the Keen in engineering firm Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds. ... The Plessey Company plc was a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. ... Qualiton Records was a small company which produced shellac and vinyl gramophone records in the 1950s near Neath, South Wales. ... The Rank Organisation, a British entertainment company formed in 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. ... Rank Xerox was formed in 1956 as a joint venture between the Xerox Corporation of USA and the Rank Organisation of UK, to manufacture and market Xerox equipment initially in Europe and later in Africa and Asia. ... Railtrack was a group of companies which owned the tracks, signals, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and some stations of the British railway system from its formation in April 1994 until 2002. ... 1965 Riley 1. ... 1936 Rover 10 1962 Rover 80 Rover 2000 1995 Rover 200 Rover (the MG Rover Group) is a manufacturer of automobiles in the United Kingdom, based at the famous Longbridge plant in Birmingham. ... Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer, England, 2003. ... Sinclair Research Ltd was a home computer company founded by Sir Clive Sinclair in Cambridge, England. ... Hogarthian image of the South Sea Bubble by Edward Matthew Ward, Tate Gallery More well known than The South Sea Company is perhaps the South Sea Bubble (1711 - September 1720) which is the name given to the economic bubble that occurred through overheated speculation in the company shares during 1720. ... The Standard Motor Company was founded in Coventry, England in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay. ... 1933 Standard Ten. ... Trafalgar House was a United Kingdom conglomerate with interests in property, property development, construction, passenger shipping and engineering. ... Triumph Logo (1978 version) 1934 Triumph Gloria Six 1937 Triumph Dolomite Roadster 1974 Triumph GT6 Coupé The Triumph Motor Company had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann (1863-1951) and Moritz (Maurice) Schulte started producing Triumph bicycles in Coventry, England. ... Tube Investments is a British engineering company specialising in the manufacture and manipulation of tubing. ... Vanden Plas is the name of a company of coachbuilders for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. ... Wolseley can mean: Wolseley plc, A British company formerly known for car manufacture, now active in other areas Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada Wolseley, a provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada Wolseley, South Africa, a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid...

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