G.W.K. Ltd was a British automobile manufacturer founded in 1911 by Arthur Grice, J. Talfourd Wood, and C. M. Keiller. The company initially operated from Beckenham, Kent, before relocating to Datchet, Buckinghamshire, in 1912, where it began series production. The firm specialized in producing cars characterized by a unique friction drive system, which Grice developed based on a mechanism he observed for grinding optical lenses. The prototype…