For information on its parent company from 1973 to 2012, see Manganese Bronze Holdings.
Carbodies
Formerly
London Taxis International The London Taxi Company
Company type
Private
Industry
Automotive
Founded
1919
Founder
Robert Jones
Defunct
2013
Fate
In liquidation
Successor
London EV Company
Headquarters
Coventry
,
England
Products
1919-1971 Car bodies
1948- Austin taxi bodies
1982-2012 complete Taxis
Owner
1919-1954 Robert Jones
1954-1973 BSA Group
1973-2013 Manganese Bronze Holdings
Website
www.lti.co.uk (archived snapshot)
Carbodies was a taxi design and manufacturing company based in Coventry, England. In its latter years it also traded as London Taxis International and The London Taxi Company.
It operated a coachbuilding business on Holyhead Road, Coventry. After half a century making short runs of limited demand bodies for major manufacturers it was obliged to replace these now moribund activities and in 1971 took from its former customer and supplier of taxi chassis, Austin, the manufacture of complete London taxicabs. Two years later was bought by Manganese Bronze Holdings.
Rebranded as The London Taxi Company in October 2010, it was placed in administration in October 2012, with certain assets purchased by Geely to form what is now the London EV Company.
Jones sold Carbodies to the BSA Group, who put it under the control of its prestige car company, Daimler. Although it was intended for Carbodies to become...
1958 until 1982, when Carbodies, who had been producing the FX4 for Austin, took over the intellectual rights to the car. Carbodies only produced the FX4...
In 1992 the name Carbodies Limited was dropped and the company was renamed LTI Limited, comprising three divisions: LTI Carbodies, LTI Mann and Overton...
terminology, a cab unit is a railroad locomotive with its own cab and controls. "Carbody unit" is a related term, which may be either a cabless booster unit controlled...
from 1965, estate forms. The estate car body shell was partly built by Carbodies,: 119 and in the Mk 1 version was the same length as the saloon. Various...
commissioned from Austin by taxi dealers Mann & Overton and built by Carbodies of Coventry on a chassis supplied by Austin. The first prototype, the...
called the Consul 375 Ford Consul Mark II Farnham Estate Carbodies Ford Consul Convertible Carbodies Ford Consul Convertible Australian developed Ford Consul...
in the Black Cab than in the Land Rover. Solihull engineers had warned Carbodies, builders of the FX4R, that this would cause problems because at idle...
although the first cars, rebodied Morris models that used coachwork from Carbodies of Coventry and known as "Kimber Specials", bore both Morris and MG badges...
Public Carriage Office Cabmen's Shelter Fund Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers Carbodies Mann & Overton LTI Category:Taxis of London Commons...
angle of an individual rail relative to vertical (e.g. around curves). Carbody unit A locomotive that derives structural strength from a bridge-truss...
Public Carriage Office Cabmen's Shelter Fund Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers Carbodies Mann & Overton LTI Category:Taxis of London Commons...
services to the Noapara-Dakshineswar stretch. The whole fleet is vestibuled. Carbodies and mechanical components were made by ICF with electrical components...
Czechoslovak vehicles, to use the network's 750 V DC voltage. Since the carbodies were built too wide for use elsewhere, they remained in Galați. Only 50...
and two-door convertible bodies. The convertible version was made by Carbodies and had a power-operated hood; the estate car was by Abbotts of Farnham...
hackney cab through the years, including: Mann & Overton - including Carbodies, The London Taxi Company and currently London EV Company Unic sold in...
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The Taiwan Railway EMU100 series was a set of rail cars fabricated by British Rail Engineering Limited and the General Electric Company in 1976 that has...
erected plant at Tile Hill, Coventry. The open tourer bodies were built by Carbodies at Holyhead Road, Coventry, and these cars were probably also assembled...
active tilting technologies. The first working prototype using a tilting carbody was ETR Y 0160, an electrically powered car launched by FIAT in 1969. This...
Public Carriage Office Cabmen's Shelter Fund Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers Carbodies Mann & Overton LTI Category:Taxis of London Commons...
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