Manganese Bronze Holdings British subsidiary Geely UK Ltd to resume assembly of the London black cab in Coventry. 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
SS Manganese SS Manganese Manganese was a coaster that was built in 1925 by Norderwerft AG, Hamburg, Germany as Wiedau for German owners. She was seized by the Allies in May 1945, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and was renamed Empire Contract. Later that year, she was transferred to Greece and renamed "Herakleion". She was sold into merchant service in 1948 and renamed Laconia. In 1965, she was sold to Egypt and renamed "Manganese". The ship was deleted from Lloyd's Register in 1993. The ship was built in 1925 by Norderwerft AG, Hamburg, as yard number 605. She was