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Britannia Cars Ltd was a small British car manufacturer based in Ashwell, Hertfordshire, active at the end of the 1950s. It was founded in December 1957 by Acland Geddes, an idealistic entrepreneur with a history of failed commercial ventures, together with his friend Murray Beecroft, who later resigned from the company. Geddes wanted to build a high-performance coupé to rival Aston Martin's DB series, and enlisted racing driver and chassis…