Gilbern

Gilbern was a Welsh car manufacturer founded in late 1958 or 1959 by Giles Smith, a master butcher, and Bernard Friese (also rendered Frieze), a German-born engineer, the company's name combining their first names. Friese had worked for a firm building glassfibre-bodied Ford specials, and the pair built their first car above Smith's family butcher's business, later moving production to a former slaughterhouse near Church Village and then to permanent…