Speedex Castings and Accessories Ltd. was a company manufacturing sports car bodies between 1958 and 1962 in

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, Bedfordshire. It was set up by

Jem Marsh Jeremy George Weston "Jem" Marsh (15 April 1930 – 2 March 2015) was a British engineer, motor manufacturer and race driver, born in Clifton, Bristol, Clifton, Bristol, England. He entered the motor industry through his company Speedex Castings a ...

who left Firestone Tyres in 1958 to manage the Luton-based ''Sporting Motorists Agency'' which sold Dante tuning parts for

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-based cars. He left in April 1958 to set up a similar company, SPEEDEX Castings and Accessories Ltd, in a former hat factory at 33 Jubilee Street. The company moved on to larger premises in Windsor Street and produced the aluminium Speedex 750 body, followed by the glassfibre Silverstone and Sirocco GT Coupe. Marsh went on to set up the

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Car Company with

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in 1962. The remaining Speedex bodies were purchased by

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-based Cambridge Engineering who marketed the cars during 1962–3.

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