Varley-Woods cars were the product of Ernest Vernon Varley Grossmith and Robert Woods. They joined forces in mid-1919 to form H. S. Motors (High Speed Motors) to produce the Varley-Woods car at the High Speed Tool Company premises, in Shaftesbury Road, Acton.
The company soon got into difficulties with unfulfilled orders and rising debt. As a result Varley and Woods decided to move to Wolverhampton, near to the Turner Manufacturing Company,…