Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford formed the company, initially as Bamford and Martin Ltd. They used the garage at the site of the plaque as a workshop and here they developed their first model the ‘Coal Scuttle’, completing in 1915. Following its impressive performance at Aston Hill, a venue for hill climb competitions, they added Aston to the firm’s name.
2015: The firm is now called Aston Martin Lagonda Limited.
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Aston Martin
On 15th January 1913 Bamford & Martin Ltd, manufacturers of the first Ast...
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A race on the River Thames, now run annually between Oxford and Cambridge universities. It was started by Charles Merivale, a student at Cambridge and Charles Wordsworth from Oxford. The gruelling ...
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