Mann & Overton Carbodies had built Mann & Overton's Austin taxis since 1948. Manganese Bronze Holdings had absorbed Carbodies Limited with portions of the former Birmingham Small Arms Company in 1973. Taxis became Manganese Bronze's core business carried out under the name "The London Taxi Company". The London Taxi Company continued the business of Mann & Overton and Carbodies until 2013 when production problems and consequent financial difficulties brought a halt to production.<br>There are plans to revive the business under the ownership of Geely UK Limited. Mann & Overton Mann & Overton Limited owned and operated a motor vehicle dealers business previously known
Selden Motor Vehicle Company the company was reorganized towards the production of trucks, where it had significantly more success, producing trucks until the company's sale to the Bethlehem Truck Company in 1930. Selden Motor Vehicle Company The Selden Motor Vehicle Company was an early American manufacturer of automobiles. The Company, founded in 1905, was based in Rochester, New York. The Selden Motor Vehicle Company was named for inventor George B. Selden, whose 1877 patent was the first U.S. patent of a "horseless carriage" and thus, controversially, is considered the inventor of the automobile. (Misleading: Selden developed his engine by 1877 & filed for a