| Founded in eighteen ninety five, the Lanchester Motor | | | | public roads just one year later. A year after this a |
| Company was started by the three Lanchester | | | | two cylinder engine was equipped to the car, as well |
| brothers and was to be based in the city of | | | | as another vehicle constructed. The 4 litre engine cars |
| Birmingham, the West Midlands. The firm ran until | | | | were steered by a lever, not a steering wheel, and six |
| nineteen fifty five, and the legal rights to the | | | | cars were produced by nineteen hundred for |
| Lanchester name now belongs to the large | | | | demonstration purposes. |
| multinational Tata Motors, which is based in Mumbai, | | | | A year past and the cars began being produced for |
| India. This acquisition was brought about when Tata | | | | customers by nineteen hundred and one. Initially the |
| Motors bought Jaguar which had the rights to the | | | | body work for the cars were outsourced from |
| Lanchester marque after Lanchester had merged with | | | | elsewhere, but this changed shortly afterwards when |
| Daimler. | | | | Lanchester set up their own operation for building the |
| The Lanchester Engine Company was established in | | | | bodies for the cars. The company became the |
| eighteen ninety nine by the three Lanchester brothers, | | | | Lanchester Motor Company in nineteen hundred and |
| Frederick, Frank and George. The brothers had first | | | | four, after the first company had a poor cash flow |
| began work on a car in eighteen ninety five, with the | | | | regardless of the large number of orders for the |
| single cylinder powered vehicle making a debut on the | | | | Lanchester cars. |