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johnfilmer:
Morgan repilca was the GCS Hawke

johnfilmer:
How about the Lenham Motor Company? They made quite special Sprites as well as hardtops and other grp bits. They also did the Lenham Healey a 3000 chassis (might have been an earlier version 100/4?} with a more “pre war “ style body, cycle wings etc.

There was a kit car manufacturer in Dartford area, made 4x4 panelled climbing frame style device, a Dakar? Memory has it that he died and the kit was unsuccessful with new owners.

A couple of brothers made Morgan replicas in Orpington in the 1990s. I was tempted, but the chassis jig seemed to be chalk lines on the garage floor…

A D type replica had my juices flowing in a pub car park east of Canterbury, and the owner who lived nearby had the bucks for the aluminium body about 2000, it had been built about 10 years before.

MartinR:
Not quite a car maker, but "In the years prior to the First World War the Pelican Yard was built up and used for the assembly and testing of petrol engines for rollers and lorries. On the outbreak of war petrol work stopped and the works were used as a store." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aveling_and_Porter#Aveling_and_Porter_after_1881

Jackie Paper:
Worthington, Coachbuilders Hythe.
After building carriages of the horse-drawn variety, they attempted to build a horseless one.

"The Worthington Duocar, or cycle-car, which had an 8-hp V-twin engine complete with a fan-cooled automatic carburettor. At the same time they were developing a car, the Worthington Runaraound. Only one was ever built. This is its specification: It was originally powered by an 8hp horizontally-opposed twin engine, but this was replaced by an 8.9hp V-twin J.A.P. The transversely mounted engine drove by two chains to a countershaft, final drive being by belt.

It was intended to sell the car for £90,  but the company overstretched itself and got involved in the other latest transport craze, the aeroplane and in the end failed to produce either car or plane. The firm went bankrupt in 1914."

It looks like the site of their old works is now a development of flats which has taken the name. Anyone know how long the old building survived?

Jackie Paper:
Canterbury Motor Co 1903-06
Where would the Pavilion be? Not the cricket ground presumably?
A link here to more info about the company: https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/canterbury.htm

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