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Thrupp & Maberly

Thrupp & Maberly was a British coachbuilding

Coachbuilder

A coachbuilder is a manufacturer of bodies for carriages or automobiles.The trade dates back several centuries. Rippon was active in the time of Queen Elizabeth I, Barker founded in 1710 by an officer in Queen Anne's Guards, Brewster & Co....
company based in London

London

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. It was formed by a merger in 1858 of the carriage builders Joseph Thrupp, who established his business in George Street (near Portman Square) in 1760, and George Maberly.

From horse drawn carriages they moved into making car bodies in 1896 with an order from the Queen of Spain. More commissions followed and the business grew leading to large numbers of bodies for staff cars being made during World War I.

After the war the company produced a range of bespoke bodies for up-market British and European marques.

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Thrupp & Maberly was a British coachbuilding

Coachbuilder

London

Cricklewood

Cricklewood is a district of North London, England whose northeastern part is in the London Borough of Barnet, western part is the London Borough of Brent and southeastern part is in London Borough of Camden....
, London but kept a showroom in North Audley Street in the West End of London which in 1925 was bought by the Rootes brothers.

Rather than becoming an in-house coachbuilder for Rootes, Thrupp & Maberly remained a prestige coachbuilder concentrating on luxury bodies for Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce Limited

Rolls-Royce Limited was a United Kingdom automobile and, from 1914, aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls on 15 March 1906 and was the result of a partnership formed in 1904....
, Daimler

Daimler

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and Bentley

Bentley

Bentley Motors Limited is an English manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley . Mr. Bentley had been previously known for his range of Rotary engine aircraft engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later versions of the Sopwith Camel....
. In 1929 they built the body for Sir Henry Segrave

Henry Segrave

Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave was famous for setting three land speed records and the water speed record. He was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously....
's land speed record car the Golden Arrow

Golden Arrow (land speed racer)

Golden Arrow was a land speed record racer. Built for Major Henry Segrave to take the LSR from Ray Keech, Golden Arrow was one of the first Streamliner land speed racers, with a pointed nose and tight cowling....
. The Rootes brothers had bought Humber

Humber (car)

Humber was a United Kingdom automobile marque which could date its beginnings to Thomas Humber's bicycle company founded in 1868. In 1931 it was taken over by the Rootes brothers to become part of the Rootes Group....
, and with it Hillman

Hillman

Hillman was a famous British automobile marque, manufactured by the Rootes. It was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England, from 1907 to 1976....
, in 1928 and from 1932 some bodies were made for the top of the range Humbers.

Additional premises were obtained in 1936 in the old Darracq

Darracq

Automobiles Darracq S.A. was a French motor vehicle manufacturing company founded in 1896 by Alexandre Darracq.Using part of the substantial profit he had made from selling his Gladiator bicycle factory, Alexandre Darracq began operating from a plant in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes....
works in Warple Way, Acton

Acton, London

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, London adjacent to a company called British Light Steel Pressings

British Light Steel Pressings

British Light Steel Pressings Ltd was a company in Acton, London, London producing bodies for the vehicle industry.British Light Steel Pressings Ltd was formed in 1930....
with whom they merged in 1939. During World War II they again built staff cars on Humber chassis.

When peacetime production resumed the Acton works was disposed of and as the market for luxury coachbuilt vehicles was in major decline they concentrated on special bodies for Rootes Group vehicles including making all the open top models. By the mid 1960s this work was declining also and the Cricklewood factory closed in 1967.