12 Facts About Lagonda

Lagonda is a British luxury car brand established in 1906, which has been owned by Aston Martin since 1947.

Lagonda company was founded in 1906 in the UK in Staines, Middlesex, by American-born Wilbur Gunn, a former opera singer.

Lagonda became a British national in 1891 and worked as a speedboat and motorcycle engineer in Staines.

Lagonda named the company after the Shawnee settlement "Lagonda" in modern-day Springfield, Ohio, the town of his birth.

Lagonda had built motorcycles on a small scale in the garden of his house in Staines with reasonable success, including a win on the 1905 London–Edinburgh trial.

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Lagonda persuaded W O Bentley to leave Rolls-Royce and join Lagonda as designer along with many of his racing department staff.

Lagonda was Rootes' retail sales manager for the London area until 1935, when he became managing director of Lagonda Ltd.

Lagonda returned to Rootes in 1946, and was posted to Australia.

In 1969, the Lagonda name was briefly resurrected, appearing on a four-door prototype of the new DBS model.

In 1976, a new Lagonda saloon appeared, the large and futuristic Aston Martin Lagonda designed by William Towns.

Lagonda is owned and driven by the husband and wife couple, played by Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant in the thriller Suspicion.

Lagonda is portrayed as driven and owned by Captain Arthur Hastings, the assistant of Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot television series; produced by ITV Studios.