Whitlock (manufacturing)

This article may confuse and conflate two (or more) separate English manufacturers of carriages and automobiles and commercial vehicles across the claimed span of 213 years! Please Note: :de: Wikipedia both warns and
differentiates between Whitlock, formerly Lawton, owned by Lawton Goodman Ltd. from 1914 to 1933. (:de:)
and the older Whitlock Aster made by Whitlock Automobile Co. Ltd. 1904-1906 (:de:)

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The Whitlock company, based in London, England, started as a carriage builder in 1778, moved into the car industry in 1903 and finally closed in 1991.