Site of former London Taxi Company factory, Holyhead Road, Coventry
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Site of former London Taxi Company factory, Holyhead Road, Coventry
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 12 Jun 2021
Site of London Taxi Company factory, Coventry, seen from Holyhead Road, with modern housing on Barker's Butts Lane visible behind the fenced-off site. The factory site is also to be developed with housing. The taxi factory originated as Carbodies, a company set up in 1919 to make bodywork for local car manufacturers, and its factory on Holyhead Road opened in 1928. Taxi production gradually became the main business from 1948 onwards, with chassis production added in 1971. Manganese Bronze Holdings owned the company from 1973 to 2012. In 2013 it was bought by the Chinese company Geely, which has built a new factory at Ansty Park, on the eastern edge of Coventry, renaming the London Taxi Company the London Electric Vehicle Company or LEVC, with a view to making vans as well as taxis. The new plant opened in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbodies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Electric_Vehicle_Company
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