Manganese Bronze Holdings LTI Limited as its only operating division. In October 2012, MBH entered administration, having not made a profit since 2007. The Chinese automotive manufacturer Geely, which already owned 20% of the shares in LTI Limited, the company's only business, agreed to purchase LTI's principal assets and trade from the administrator to save the business and continue the production of taxis in Coventry. The new holding company was named The London Taxi Corporation, and traded as "The London Taxi Company" (as LTI had done): this successor company was renamed to London EV Company in 2017. Manganese originally made ship propellers. In
Briton Motor Company A. Weight who took over what remained of the company. Weight moved the machine shop and components that had been left behind to a new site at Chillington Fields also taking on a number of Briton's old workforce. Car production continued on this site until 1929 when production costs became too great, with around 600 cars having been made in total. The Briton Motor Company continued, becoming Tractor Spares Limited in 1940, a company which still exists today. Briton Motor Company The Briton Motor Company was a Wolverhampton based car manufacturer that produced cars from 1909 to 1919 then from