Reliance Motor Transit
Reliance Motor Transit
10 March 1906 Reliance Motor Transit is registered at Companies House. The main shareholders and company directors are Edward Ernest Lehwess, William Longman and Louis Spitzel.[1]
4 June 1906 Reliance Motor Transit moves into a garage at 45 Horseferry Road.[2]
September 1906 Louis Spitzel dies. Spitzel, who had made a fortune gun running in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5, provided the finance for Reliance Motor Transit.[3] Reliance Motor Transit leaves Horseferry Road.
December 1907 Spitzel’s heirs sue Lehwess. In settlement Lehwess compensates Spitzel’s heirs, who in return drop their allegations of fraud and misrepresentation.[4]