George Lanchester Size:L: 75 x 50cm A smiling couple driving along

A smiling couple driving along the coast

View of Little Britain

18th March 1972

with spectators saying they had heard no sonic boom

he lapped Brooklands at 118 mph

George Lanchester Size:L: 75 x 50cm A smiling couple driving alongGeorge Lanchester. Together with his brothers he formed the Lanchester Engine Company, which became the Lanchester Motor Company in 1905. Lanchester was the first British motor manufacturer to export left hand drive cars, with overseas customers including Henry Ford and a number of Indian Maharajahs. The company was taken over by the BSA Daimler group in 1933, and production of Lanchesters was reduced, the last car being built in 1955.