The Morgan Motor Company is the oldest independently owned car manufacturer in the world and the oldest British owned one still making cars in the UK. Based in Malvern, Worcestershire, where they first started making cars, Morgan celebrated their centenary in 2009. The Morgan Motor Company is well known all over the world for their hand built open sports cars, echoing a style of car that was a common site on British roads before and after the Second World War.
Despite the familiar 'heritage' look of a classic Morgan, they have kept up to date with technology, incorporating many of the latest mechanical developments into the range. In 2012 they re-introduced their iconic 3 Wheeler after a break in production of almost seventy years. Current models are the Super 3, the Plus Four and Plus Six. However, Morgan have a deserved reputation for innovation, so watch this space!
Started in 1924 by the legendary William Morris, the original company of Morris Commercial produced a huge number of different commercial vehicles including the iconic 1950s J-Type van, before it finally dissapeared at the start of the 1970s.
Now, an automotive engineering and manufacturing start-up company, based at Hinton-On-The Green, Worcestershire, has bought the rights to the Morris Commercial name and developed a highly individual version of this van as a fully electric vehicle, called the Morris JE. Production is due to start towards the end of 2021.
Morris Commercial has a highly experienced senior management team, consisting of Dr Qu Li, CEO and Founder of Morris Commercial; Johanna Kriisa, Director of Marketing and Investor Relations; and Tony Frazier, Director of Engineering and Supplier Development and Ewoud Vroegop, Director of Sales and Business.
MST Cars has evolved from a family business, Motorsport-Tools, based in Pwllheli, North Wales. Successfully trading since 2008 supplying parts and equipment to the motorsport industry, with family roots in the automotive trade going back over 100 years.
Based in the heart of Wales, where rallying is part of the life and culture, the company has evolved from originally selling tools and equipment for the motorsport industry to a specialist supplier of Escort Mk1 & Mk2 parts.
Today MST has become the world leader in the development and supply of Escort Mk1 and Mk2 parts. After building up a massive stock range of nearly all parts required to build a new Escort rally car, the natural step forward as a cpmpany was to actually offer complete fully built cars. 2020 marks the first year for new road registered Mk1 and Mk2s since the 1980s.
They now offer a range of these two models, both highly collectable as classics, in various forms of fast road, rally and track specifications.
Munro Vehicles is a start-up company founded in 2019 by Russ Paterson and Ross Anderson, to design and build a tough, no-nonsense, all-terrain 4x4. The big difference between the Munro 1, their first creation, and any competition (if they indeed have any currently), is that it is entirely battery-powered and will be built in Scotland. It will make Munro Vehicles this country's second car manufacturer, with the seven-style Raptor Sports Cars being the first, following the demise of the Peugeot-Talbot plant at Linwood over forty years ago.
Over 300 jobs are forecast for their purpose-built East Kilbride manufacturing plant, where these innovative vehicles will be hand built by a highly technical workforce.
In the late summer of 2022, an agreement was reached with ‘Wyre’, an all-electric vehicle sales and leasing specialist that’s targeting major industries and utilities throughout the USA. This important deal means that vehicle production will start in Munro’s purpose built factory at the end of 2022, ready for the first export shipments in 2023.
The first fifty units already sold will be delivered in 2023, with 500 in 2024 and 2,500 in 2025. Munro Vehicles will be dedicating half of their 2023 production to left-hand-drive vehicles developed specifically for the US market, which Wyre will deliver to customers throughout the year.
After several years of intensive development and thousands of miles of testing on road and track, the decision has been made to start low volume production of the NICHOLS N1A.
The brainchild of former McLaren Chief Designer Steve Nichols who led the technical team responsible for the McLaren MP4/4, the most successful F1 car of all time, the NICHOLS N1A is a celebration of his close ties with the Woking company, being a modern interpretation of the very first McLaren, the M1A.
“We didn’t set out with the intention of going into production,” says Nichols. “It was an idea that John Minett, Nichols Cars’ CEO, and I had been talking about for a while. In the end we thought we might as well build one and see how it turned out. Once people saw it on the road, the response was incredible. It’s a bit like the original M1A that started the whole McLaren story. Bruce McLaren built it as a one-off for his own personal use. Then people starting asking him if he could produce a few more!”
The car will make its debut in the summer of 2022.
