This is the old Camber / Maya GT factory

It's been a while since I wrote about the Camber / Maya GT, while it is an absolute favourite. Perhaps all the surviving cars have been unearthed by this time? At least most of them have been described on these pages before (full files here).

However, I had never before found the exact spot of the old factory. This also because the address given on the cars' promotional material simply was 'Camber Road, Rye', which is quite a long road with several buildings surviving there which could well have been it. 

But then Rod Porteous came to the rescue. He wrote: "As a youngster I holidayed near Camber and remember cars being built at this workshop on the outskirts of Camber. The workshop has been empty for years and thought I would record it before it’s demolished."

That has to be it. Great!

One of several Maya GT brochures from 'Camber Road, Rye, Sussex'

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And another. W. West (Engineers) Ltd. was run by George Holmes

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This is the place where these cars were built, or so remembers Rod Porteous

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Just 6 Camber GTs as well as 6 Maya GTs came to life here in these premises

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