48:11Lesser-known British cars of the 1940s, 1950s & 1960s
TVR, Lagonda, Car, Lea-Francis
Rare prototype footage of Lea-Francis, curated from across the internet. Browse 1 clip below.
Prototype footage offers a glimpse of cars before they reach production — spy shots of camouflaged test mules on the Nurburgring, official manufacturer teasers, and behind-the-scenes clips from design studios and wind tunnels. These videos capture the development process that takes a car from sketch to showroom, and they're particularly fascinating when compared against the final production version. Some prototypes represent paths not taken — cancelled projects, rejected designs, and experimental technologies that were ahead of their time.
Lea-Francis was a British motor manufacturing company that began by building bicycles.
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