Robert Bamford was an English engineer, born in 1883 at Lamarsh in Essex and dead in 1942, who co-founded the firm that became Aston Martin. Before working in the motor industry he was a racing cyclist. In the First World War he served in a London cyclist battalion and then as a lieutenant in the Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport. With Lionel Martin he founded Bamford and Martin Ltd in West Kensington in January 1913, and he was the engineer of the partnership; their first Aston-Martin car, nicknamed the Coal Scuttle, appeared in March 1915. He retired from the company in 1920, and it later passed through several owners before David Brown Ltd made it the marque known in the 1950s. He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Robert Bamford (16 June 1883 – 16 April 1942) was an English engineer who co-founded Bamford & Martin, which later became Aston Martin, with Lionel Martin in 1913.
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Robert Bamford (16 June 1883-16 April 1942) was an English engineer who co-founded Bamford & Martin, which later became Aston Martin, with Lionel Martin in 1913.
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Robert Bamford was the engineer of the partnership.
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He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2013.
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