Lagonda

Lagonda is a British luxury car brand established in 1906 and owned by Aston Martin since 1947. The company was founded in Staines, Middlesex, by the American-born former opera singer Wilbur Gunn, who named it after a Shawnee settlement in his hometown of Springfield, Ohio. Its first car, the 20 hp six-cylinder Torpedo, appeared in 1907 and won the Moscow to St. Petersburg trial of 1910. After Gunn died in 1920 directors headed by Colin Parbury took charge; the receiver was called in 1935 and Alan P. Good bought the company and brought W. O. Bentley in as designer, which led to the Lagonda V12 of 1937. David Brown took the company over in 1947 and moved it in with Aston Martin, which he also owned. The name has not had a continuous commercial existence and has been dormant several times, most recently from 1995 to 2008, from 2010 to 2013 and from 2016 onward, while Aston Martin announced its revival in 2008 and 2011.