Editing Aston Martin (section)

=== Founding ===
Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by [[Lionel Martin]] and [[Robert Bamford]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astonmartin.com/the-company/history |title=Company History 1913 – 1920 |publisher=Astonmartin.com |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225062127/http://www.astonmartin.com/the-company/history |archive-date=25 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by [[Singer (car)|Singer]] from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced [[GWK (car)|GWK]] and [[Calthorpe cars|Calthorpe]] vehicles. Martin raced specials at [[Aston Clinton Hillclimb|Aston Hill]] near [[Aston Clinton]], and the pair decided to make their own vehicles.<ref>{{cite journal|first=E.M. |last=Inman-Hunter |title=Notes on the Original Aston-Martin Company |journal=Motor Sport |date=May 1944 |page= 92 }}</ref> The first car to be named ''Aston Martin'' was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder [[Coventry-Simplex]] engine to the chassis of a 1908 [[Isotta Fraschini]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Aston Martin: Car Manufacturer: Great British Design Quest |url=http://www.designmuseum.org/design/aston-martin |publisher=Design Museum |access-date=23 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701055155/http://designmuseum.org/design/aston-martin |archive-date= 1 July 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.speedace.info/aston_martin.htm |title= Aston martin 1914–2005 |work= speedace.info |access-date= 23 August 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081228110146/http://www.speedace.info/aston_martin.htm |archive-date= 28 December 2008 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

They acquired premises at Henniker Mews<ref>{{cite journal|url= http://www.lurotbrand.co.uk/images/mewsnews/MN%202009%2001%20Spring.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.lurotbrand.co.uk/images/mewsnews/MN%202009%2001%20Spring.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=Henniker Mews, SW3 |journal=Mews News |page=3 |publisher=Lurot Brand |date=Spring 2009 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> in [[Kensington]] and produced their first car in March 1915. Production could not start because of the outbreak of the [[First World War]], when Martin joined the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] and Bamford joined the [[Royal Army Service Corps|Army Service Corps]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29337|page=10477|supp=y|date=22 October 1915}}</ref>