Manganese Bronze Holdings

Manganese Bronze Holdings plc was a British engineering company that ended its life as the holding company of LTI Limited, maker of the London black taxicab at Coventry. Its article traces the business to a ship propeller maker, the Manganese Bronze and Brass Company, and gives more than one founding date, from the 1870s to 1899, with the lead stating 1881 and incorporation in 1882. In the early 1960s it became an important conglomerator of British motorcycle marques, in 1973 it absorbed part of BSA including Carbodies, and in 2003 it sold its components division, leaving LTI as its only operating division. It formed a taxicab partnership with the Chinese maker Geely in 2006. The company entered administration on 22 October 2012 after failing to secure additional funding, and Geely then bought the taxicab business and set up The London Taxi Corporation to continue production.