Grosvenor Carriage Company

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The Grosvenor Carriage Company Ltd was a British coachbuilder founded around 1910 and based at Welbeck Works, Willesden Lane, London NW6 (Kilburn, North West London). They built high-quality coachwork for leading cars, including Rolls-Royce, and produced ambulance bodies during World War I. In 1920 they joined Shaw & Kilburn, the main Vauxhall dealer in London, and Vauxhall became their main customer, though they still worked on other makes. From the late 1920s Grosvenor was responsible for most or all of Vauxhall’s specialist bodies, and in 1929 built the Hurlingham and Melton bodies on the Vauxhall 20-60. From 1932 they seem to have built almost exclusively for Vauxhall, effectively becoming their in-house coachbuilder. Luxury coachbuilding stopped with World War II. In 1954 they advertised a 10-passenger bus and a pick-up conversion of a Bedford van. The last known project was a 1956 estate-car conversion of the Vauxhall Velox. By the late 1950s or early 1960s the name had lapsed and the company closed in the 1960s.