Aston Martin History

Servicing vehicles and selling Singer cars from their garages in London, Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin were business partners, with the latter of the business associates racing at Aston Hill regularly. Founded in 1913, Aston Martin, a name derived from the last name of racer Lionel, and the race track near Aston Clinton, Aston Hill, which he raced at, was set up as the two decided to create their own cars. In 1915 Lionel Martin created their first car, the Aston Martin, a hybrid born from the 4-cylinder Coventry Simplex engine and the frame of the Isotta-Fraschini, which was created in their newly acquired premises in Kensington. With the First World War beginning, the tools and machines used by the pair were sold, and the two joined the arm services.

With the war now passed, the pair decided to refund Aston Martin, with the company now operating from new premises within Kensington. 1920 proved to be a radical year for the company, with founding partner Robert Bamford deciding to part with Aston Martin, followed by the company being funded by the racing driver and engineer, Count Louis Zborowski, an experienced and enthusiastic person who had riving in his blood (his dad was also a racing driver). With two focused people at the reins of the company, and the production of fifty five long and short chassis cars, the company still went bankrupt. The company was saved by Lady Charnwood soon after, with a decision of placing her trusted son on the company board to aid in stability, only for the company to collapse again a year later, with factories closing, triggering the end of the last founding member, Lionel Martin, who decided to leave the failed company.

The developers of the overhead cam 4 cylinder engine, Augustus Bertelli and Bill Renwick, teamed with existing stakeholder, Lady Charnwood, and a number of other investors decided to turn the flagging company around. Moving to new premises, the move into car production was ideal for Bertelli and Renwick who has masterminded the move in the knowledge of the buzz around the heritage of the Aston Martin brand, and had a perfect opportunity to use their engine and cut out the middle man. One of the pair who created the new 4 cylinder engine, Bertelli, was set to take the reins in technical and design quarters of the group, penning the cars between 1926-37,and subsequently went on to race the cars he had masterminded himself, a very rare occurrence within the industry. The company was rescued by Brune in 1932, after shallowly avoiding meltdown, proceeding with the company being handed to Sir Arthur Sutherland. Under his control the company focused on road car production, a market the company had shied away from. During the Second World War the company shut down car production, to create aircraft parts.

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