At the base of the now-forgotten company ARAB are well-known car company and famous people. The first was a young 20-year-old Reid Railton, who after World War I began working for Leyland in Manchester, which then made steam trucks. He became an assistant engineer of the research center Parry Thomas, who is not indifferent to car racing. They both have the merit of creating a top-class car Leyland Eight, presented in the autumn of 1920 at the London Motor Show.
Thomas left Leyland in 1923 to devote himself entirely to motor racing and record races. Railton followed him. But he decided to start building new cars. In the town of Letchworth, he rented a forge and began developing an ARAB passenger car. ".
The first samples appeared in 1926. These were low sports cars “Sport” and “Super Sport” for 2 and 4 seats with 4-cylinder overhead valves of about 2 liters. When Railton found out that Thomas crashed during another attack at an absolute speed record in 1927, he closed his company, having managed to make only 12 cars. But he was destined to write in the history of the car many more glorious pages.
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