Buckingham / Chota

This British marque originated as the Buckingham Engine Works of Coventry, active between 1913 and 1915, and later continued as the Buckingham Engineering Co. Ltd from 1922 to 1923. The company's founder, J. F. Buckingham, announced his first cyclecar in December 1912 under the name Chota, a Hindustani word meaning small. It was fitted with a 6/8 horsepower, 746cc single-cylinder overhead-valve engine of his own design and manufacture, an unusual…