The Motor Manufacturing Co. was a British car maker based in Coventry, later moving to Clapham, London, that operated under various names between 1897 and 1908. Its origins lay in the Great Horseless Carriage Co. Ltd, one of several ventures established by the company promoter Harry J. Lawson, who had also floated the English Daimler company in 1896. The firm was housed within the Motor Mills in Coventry, premises shared…