[3] Edward Alfred Tamplin,[4] a member of the Sussex brewing family but with no direct involvement in the business, ran the Railway Garage in Staines.

He was an agent for the Carden cyclecar and in 1919, after contracting to take the entire output, purchased the rights to manufacture it.

The car was powered by a 980 cubic centimetres (60 cu in) JAP V-twin, air-cooled engine mounted on the side of the body and coupled by chain drive to a Sturmey-Archer three-speed-and-reverse gearbox and then by an exposed belt to the rear wheels.

In 1924 a new, more conventional, version was announced with a front-mounted engine and a much wider body, allowing side-by-side seating.

By 1925 the market for cyclecars was effectively over and Tamplin returned to the garage business becoming a truck dealer.