The company can trace its roots back to 1824 with James and Stephen Perry making pens in a workshop in London, later moving to Birmingham and building bicycles.
By the late 1890s they were having financial problems and were bought by James William Bayliss, part owner of the Bayliss-Thomas car making company.
Cecil Bayliss, the son of the new owner, built a cyclecar in 1911 with an 800 cc Fafnir engine, and this was developed into the first Perry car to reach production.
The basic body was an open two-seater, but a long-wheelbase version allowing a dickey seat was also available.
The larger car allowed four seat bodies to be offered as well as two seaters and these were mainly made by Mulliners of Birmingham.