Manganese Bronze Holdings Manganese Bronze Holdings Manganese Bronze Holdings plc (MBH) was the holding company of LTI Limited: their sole business in their final years as a company was London black taxicab manufacturing through the LTI subsidiary. MBH was founded in 1899 and was once an important conglomerator of British motorcycle marques. The company acquired the subsidiary Carbodies in 1973, which was involved in the design, development and production of taxicabs. This subsidiary eventually became "LTI Limited", and traded first as "London Taxis International" and then as "The London Taxi Company". The sale of its components division in 2003 left the company with
Production vehicle cars need to have at least 25 identical cars produced within a 12-month period and they were meant for normal sale to individual purchasers. However, FIA rules tend to allow a degree of modification from the original. Another example is the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association which is concerned solely with the speed of a vehicle. The Association uses its own definition of a production vehicle. The Association allows quite a high level of modification over the original. In 2006 a Pontiac TransAm of John Rains Racing was classified as being the fastest production model (Bonneville D/PS class) with a