From Malcolm Buckler in the Isle of Man

My father made sports cars called "Bucklers"
from 1947 to the 1960's.
These were all designed at 85 Woodcote Road.
Some were made at his engineering company in
67 Caversham Road but most of the assembly was completed at the works in Heath Hill Road, Crowthorne.

About 400 cars resulted and The Buckler Car Register
caters for existing owners world wide, organises meets and publishes a quarterly illustrated newsletter.
My website for these is http://groups.msn.com/BucklerCars

Other cars made in Caversham were the H.E. made by Elliotts in the late 1920's-30's and similar to a sports Bentley and the "British", made 1905 to 1907, which I think was manufactured in the old Caversham Motors premises, in Church Street.

There is some car history on http://www.caversham.org.uk/aboutCav/intro.htm and a 1949 publicity photo of a Buckler with Caversham Bridge behind.

I enclose a photo of Carole and me,
last year (2002), in our early Buckler Mark 5 .

Another area, which should be covered, are the wonderful boats, hand-crafted by Freebody's of Caversham. A search on the web should find information, as I think they are still made, though maybe not in Caversham any more?