Manganese Bronze Holdings LTI Limited as its only operating division. In October 2012, MBH entered administration, having not made a profit since 2007. The Chinese automotive manufacturer Geely, which already owned 20% of the shares in LTI Limited, the company's only business, agreed to purchase LTI's principal assets and trade from the administrator to save the business and continue the production of taxis in Coventry. The new holding company was named The London Taxi Corporation, and traded as "The London Taxi Company" (as LTI had done): this successor company was renamed to London EV Company in 2017. Manganese originally made ship propellers. In
What Took You So Long? it the singer's first and only number-one single in the United Kingdom. The single also topped the chart in New Zealand and Scotland. The music video for the single was directed by Greg Masuak and shot on 10 and 11 February 2001 in the Mojave Desert in California. One of the B-sides, "(Hey You) Free Up Your Mind", was previously featured on the to "" in 1999. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "A Girl Like Me". What Took You So Long? "What Took You So Long?" is a song by English singer Emma Bunton from her debut solo