Leonard Percy Lord, 1st Baron Lambury KBE was a captain of the British motor industry.
Austin A40 Sports, ca 1951, designed by Eric Neale and manufactured by Austin Motor Company in conjunction with Jensen Motors. The car originated when Leonard Lord, upon seeing the Jensen Interceptor, requested that Jensen develop a body that could use the A40 mechanicals.
Morris Motors Limited was a British privately owned motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles. By 1926 its production represented 42 per cent of British car manufacture—a remarkable expansion rate attributed to William Morris's practice of buying in major as well as minor components and assembling them in his own factory. Largely self-financed through his enormous profits, Morris did borrow some money from the public in 1926, and later shared some of Morris Motors' ownership with the public in 1936. The new capital was then used by Morris Motors to buy many of his other privately held businesses.
An array of Morris cars on the forecourt of Mr J. Kelly's garage at Catherine Street, Waterford, Ireland, 1928
1925 Morris—42 per cent of production
Diorama of Both-Nuffield iron lung assembly at Morris Motors Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
1936 Wolseley