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
American Bronze Company American Bronze Company The American Bronze Company aka American White Bronze Company was a company that produced, and sold through trade catalogs, zinc (known as “white bronze”)statues and memorials. It was founded in about 1885, initially as a subsidiary of the Monumental Bronze Company. In 1892 the foundry, owned by Paul Cornell, was located in Grand Crossing, Illinois where Cornell owned a watch company. Around 1900 the company moved to in Chicago. The firm is best known for producing cemetery monuments and Civil War monuments, for both the Union and Confederate causes. “In the wake of the American Civil War,