Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Reliance Motor Transit

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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]

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Sources of Information

  1. National Archives, BT 31/11437/87926
  2. National Archives, BT 31/11437/87926
  3. Financial Times, 6 September 1906, p. 2
  4. Mick Hamer, A Most Deliberate Swindle, RedDoor, 2017, p. 75.