a man to manage her". To prove Mulliner wrong they both took the controls during the journey south. Business boomed during the 1920s with orders for bodies on Armstrong Siddeley and Vauxhall cars being exhibited at the 1920 London Motor Show. In 1907 a new sales office and works was opened in Long Acre, London. In the 1930s although orders for the more traditional makers such as Derby's Rolls-Royce and Bentley continued, large production runs from the middle market makers were proving harder to get and in 1940 the business was sold to the car distributor Henlys which closed the coach building business and dropped the name after Arthur's death in 1946 but kept the sales and marketing operation which lasted until 1976. Aeroplanes A few years before the first World War some aeroplanes were developed and built in a converted ice skating rink at the Battersea, London works - 2 to 16 Vardens Road, Battersea. Herbert Hall Mulliner. In the mid 1880s Arthur's brother H H Mulliner (1861-1924) started a coachbuilding business in Birmingham because Leamington Spa had fallen out of fashion and that coachbuilding business became Mulliners (Birmingham). Henry Jervis Mulliner. In 1900 the motor-car part of the London operation jointly owned by Mulliner Northampton and Mulliner Liverpool was purchased by H J Mulliner (1870-1967), son of R B Mulliner (1830-1902) of Chiswick and he put its ownership into his company formed in 1897, H J Mulliner Limited. Premises Northampton Works 73 to 83 Bridge Street, and Victoria Gardens, Northampton Showroom 73 Bridge Street Northampton London 56 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square W1 28 Brook Street London W1 This showroom was opened in the early 1870s by Francis Mulliner (1824-1886) by then of Liverpool.In 1882 A G Mulliner of Liverpool and A F Mulliner of Northampton placed the showroom ownership in a jointly held company, Mulliner London Limited.In 1896 H J Mulliner "joined his cousins in Mulliner London Limited" (probably as an employee). Then in 1900 he bought from his cousins the car side of that Brook Street business and put it in the ownership of H J Mulliner & Co, Brook Street, Mayfair. 13 to 25 Long Acre London WC, Mulliner Coachworks Limited —Long Acre Works Colonel Arthur Mulliner of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Vardens Road Battersea 1909-1912 54 Baker Street London by 1923 Cars by Arthur Mulliner of London and Northampton Notes References External