*A rare and short-lived British marque *In the present family ownership since 1955 *Restored 50-plus years ago Please note a typographical error on the V5 incorrectly states the engine number is 2390.

The Motor Manufacturing Company (MMC) was successor to The Great Horseless Carriage Company, which had been founded by the infamous entrepreneur and fraudster, Harry J Lawson, in 1896 and was part of his British Motor Syndicate.

Lawson had sought to establish a monopoly of motor manufacturing in the Britain by obtaining as many related patents as possible, starting with those of the German Daimler company.

His efforts, like those of the Selden patent's owners in the USA, would be frustrated by the courts.

The Great Horseless Carriage Company shared the Motor Mills in Coventry with Daimler's British offshoot and commenced production in 1897 using Daimler engines and gearboxes, while the bodies and wheels were of its own manufacture.

Reorganised as The Motor Manufacturing Company in 18...