Formed in 1926 Boyd-Carpenter and Thompson Limited traded from the former Gordon England service garage at 47,West End Lane, Kilburn NW6. Francis H. Boyd-Carpenter had been an employee of Gordon England involved in the production of their popular Brooklands Sports model while also raced his own Austin 7’s at the Brooklands circuit. Initially the company provided servicing, repair and specialist tuning of Austin Sevens but in about 1927 they started production of their own design of bodywork for the Austin Seven chassis - the Boyd-Carpenter Special.  The firm continued to be very active in motor racing gaining many successes, their most famous cars being Mr and Mrs Jo-Jo. Mrs Jo-Jo was developed by Boyd-Carpenter from one of Gordon Englands Streamliners and used for circuit racing while Mr Jo-Jo, a specially tuned Gordon England Cup model, was used for long distance record attempts.  In 1930 the firm changed its name to Boyd-Carpenter and Company Limited but continued building their B-C Special Austin 7 cars.  The firm had 9 employees – 2 making the wooden frames, 2 forming the aluminium bodies and 5 working on the engines and servicing work.

It’s believed that the total production of BC Specials was only 32 of which 5 or 6 are thought to still exist today.