White Rose Vehicles was a kit car manufacturer based in Gillingham, Kent, that emerged from Medway Itec Training Services (MITS), a business creation institute that functioned as a job-creation scheme. The company was run by John Richards and became known for taking over and marketing a number of plan-built wooden-bodied kits that had originally been developed by John Cowperthwaite. Among the models it produced was the Dalesman, a period-style van…