This early British motor manufacturing concern was formed through the partnership of George Hurst, a model maker based at 293 High Holborn in London, and Lewis A. Lloyd. The two men began working together on engine construction in the late 1890s. In 1897 the firm, operating as Hurst & Lloyd from Holborn, built a car fitted with a two-cylinder horizontal engine mounted beneath the floorboards, with final drive achieved through…