E. D. Abbott Ltd

1898)[1] had been employed in the design department of Wolseley Motors before he joined the coachbuilders Page and Hunt who had started operations in 1920.

[2] Abbott became their London Sales Manager and when Page and Hunt's business failed in 1929 he took over their Farnham works, forming a new company using his own name.

[2] Many of the early orders were for commercial vehicles, which kept the business afloat during the worst of the depression, but some car body making continued.

In 1934 Abbott won a major contract from Lagonda to provide all the bodies for the new small Rapier and work from Frazer-Nash for coachwork on imported BMW chassis.

After World War 2 the company restarted its coachbuilding activities, building production runs of coupés for Sunbeam-Talbot and Healey, as well as some special bodies for Jowett, Bentley and Lanchester.