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stuartwaters:
I'm sure that many years ago, a Company (may have been Tylers) had a display of AC Cobra replicas in the Pentagon Centre in Chatham. From memory, the most expensive model was powered by a Jaguar 5.3 litre V12. It was a beautiful car and I decided I wanted one. Until I saw the price.

CAT:
As I understood, the count's cars (chassis, engines etc.) were supposedly built in the old coach house of Highland Court approx. 3miles south of Canterbury, whilst Bligh's were a coach builders and produced the bodywork. It was said that the Count was stopped from driving his cars through Bridge village due to the noise from their unsilenced engines, which were repurposed aircraft engines and could be heard starting-up in most of the surrounding villages.

grandarog:
The racing driver and car builder Louis Vorow Zborowski built Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and other racing cars at Canterbury. He was known as Count Zborowski and was killed racing in the  1924 Italian Grand Prix for Mercedes  at Monza, after his car skidded on a curve and turned over twice.

Jackie Paper:
GSM built a fibre-glass bodied sports car with Ford Anglia 105E engine in South Africa, and for a short while (76 cars claimed) at West Malling in Kent. Apparently the works were at the Windsor Garage, owned by a Mr John P Scott.

I see there is a proposed housing development in West Malling called the Windsor Works. Which seems to be to the rear of the Humphries and Parks Mitsubishi dealers on the A20.       

johnfilmer:
Caterham Cars are made in Kennet Road, Dartford.

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