Thrupp & Maberly

[2][3][note 1] There was access to the workshops through an arch in Oxford Street, and in the early 19th century this was developed into a showroom.

More commissions followed and the business grew leading to large numbers of bodies being made for staff cars during World War I.

[7] After the 1914-1918 war Thrupp & Maberly produced a range of bespoke bodies for up-market British and European marques.

Thrupp & Maberly remained a prestige coachbuilder, concentrating on luxury bodies for Rolls-Royce, Daimler and Bentley automobiles.

In 1929, they built the body for Sir Henry Segrave's land speed record car, the Golden Arrow.

Additional premises were obtained in 1936 in the old Darracq works in Warple Way, Acton, London, adjacent to a company called British Light Steel Pressings, with whom they merged in 1939.

[7] When peacetime production resumed after the end of the Second World War the Acton works was disposed of, and as the market for luxury coach-built vehicles was in decline, they concentrated on special bodies for Rootes Group vehicles, including making all the catalogued open-top Humbers.

[12] There again they advertised they were by appointment to H.M. the King official retailers of Rolls-Royce cars and special coach builders to the Daimler Company.