Pick Motor Car Company Stamford - Spanner

Messrs. Pick & Co started in business repairing cycles in the 1890s.  It was only natural that John Henry Pick, Jack to his friends, should move on to making motor cars. By 1900 Stamford had a firm making motor cars. The firm had a site in Gas Lane where Danegeld now stands before moving to High Street, St. Martins. Many of the parts were made locally, including the bodies which were constructed by Hayes and Son at Scotgate.  A successful business was being developed but the First World War brought an end to many of Jack Pick’s dreams with the company going into voluntary liquidation in January 1925.