Swain & Jones ltd

35 42 East Street
Farnham, Surrey GU9 7SW
United Kingdom

Website:	www.swainandjones.co.uk
Phone:	+44 1252 712633

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Summary

Revenues:	Under $20 Million
Employees:	Under 99

Description

Despite its modern appearance, Swain & Jones has been in business for almost 100 years.

Anyone entering Swain & Jones's showrooms in Farnham, Surrey, might be excused for thinking that it is a relatively recent initiative. But while the latest MG and Rover showroom did, in fact, only open in November 2000, the entire site is steeped in industrial and motoring history.

In 1908, Frank Swain and John Lewis-Jones joined forces to establish a business as 'motor agents' at 38 East Street, Farnham. Twenty-five-year-old 'Jack' Lewis-Jones already had wide experience of the motor industry both in France - then Europe's leading motor manufacturing nation - and his home country. In the early years of the century he joined the prestigious Napier and Sons in Acton, West London, and eventually became one of its chief testers. There he met Frank Swain, who was almost exactly the same age; they were both born in June 1883, although Swain was older by three weeks.