Coventry has a special place in the history of the motor car. The first British production car was built in the city in 1896. Since then scores of motor car manufacturing companies have made their home here. Brian Long's most interesting book 'The Marques of Coventry' provides a full list of these companies:
in which the companies first built cars under the given marque name
| Academy (1906) | Acme (1919) |
| Aircraft (1919) | Albatros (1923) |
| Allard (1898) | Alpha (1914) |
| Alvis (1920) | Arden (1912) |
| Ariel (1900) | Armstrong-Siddeley (1919) |
| Arno (1908) | Aurora (1903) |
| Auto-Forge Automobiles (1987) | Autovia (1936) |
| Awson (1926) | Barnett (1921) |
| Thomas Bayliss (1920) | Beeston (1899) |
| Billings (1900) | Bramco (1921) |
| British Motor Company (1896) | British Motor Traction (1906) |
| Broadway (1913) | Brooks (1901) |
| Buckingham (1913) | Calcott (1913) |
| Carbodies (1946) | Carlton (1901) |
| Centaur (1900) | Challenge (1912) |
| Chrysler UK (1968) | Clarendon (1902) |
| Clément (1908) | Climax (1905) |
| Cluley (1922) | Cooper (1922) |
| Coronet (1903) | Coventry Premier (1913) |
| Coventry Victor (1926) | Crouch (1912) |
| Daimler (1896) | Dalton & Wade (1906) |
| Dawson (1919) | Deasy (1906) |
| Doherty (1906) | Duryea (1902) |
| Eagle (1912) | Emms (1922) |
| Endurance (1899) | Ferguson (1950) |
| Forge (1903) | Forman (1901) |
| Garrard & Blumfield (1894) | Glover (1912) |
| Great Horseless Carriage Company (1896) | Hamilton (1903) |
| Hillman (1910) | Hillman-Coatalen (1907) |
| Hobart Bird (1904) | Hotchkiss (1920) |
| Hubbard (1906) | Humber (1896) |
| Iden (1904) | Jaguar (1945) |
| Lady (1899) | Lanchester (1931) |
| Lea-Francis (1904) | Lee-Stroyer (1903) |
| Lotis (1908) | Marseal (1919) |
| Maudslay (1901) | John McGuire Racing (1977) |
| Motor Manufacturing Company (1898) | Motor Radiator (1912) |
| New Beeston (1898) | Omega (1925) |
| Payne & Bates (1900) | Pennington (1896) |
| Peugeot-Talbot (1979) | Progress (1899) |
| Raglan (1899) | Ranger (1913) |
| Record (1905) | Remington (1919) |
| Rex (1902) | Ridley (1901) |
| Riley (1898) | Andy Rouse Engineering (1983) |
| Rover (1904) | Rudge (1912) |
| Ryley (1901) | Siddley (1902) |
| Siddeley-Deasy (1911) | Singer (1900) |
| Standard (1903) | Stoneleigh (1912) |
| Sunbeam-Talbot (1946) | Swallow/SS/SS Jaguar (1928) |
| Swift (1899) | Talbot (1978) |
| Taylor-Swetnam (1913) | Titan (1911) |
| Triumph (1923) | Velox (1902) |
| Viking (1914) | Warwick (1926) |
| West-Aster (1904) | Whitley (1900) |
| Wigan Barlow (1922) | Williamson (1913) |
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