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
Rapid Motor Vehicle Company Rapid Motor Vehicle Company The Rapid Motor Vehicle Company was founded in 1902 in Pontiac, Michigan, by brothers Max Grabowsky and Morris Grabowsky. They went on to build one-ton trucks and were the beginning of GMC Truck division after they were acquired by General Motors in 1909. In 1905, Albert North and Harry Hamilton from the Pontiac Spring & Wagon Works (PS&WW) built the first Pontiac automobile and also acquired control of the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company from the Grabowsky brothers. Both became key forces in the operations of the company. Under their direction, the establishment produced many different styles