Englishman Guy Buckingham

Australian car company NOTA is known for its car varieties. From the Austin 7 based model to the V8 thumpers, all cars differ in style as well as in features. Also, the firm designed clubman style cars that were popular in Australia. The mastermind behind NOTA is Guy Buckingham. To follow his passion to dedicate life in the automotive industry, Guy has to pay a big price.  Yes, the path selected by Guy caused the disputes in family. But he was firm to achieve his chosen path in life. For that, he moved to Australia. He designed the first model of NOTA in 1952 called christened the Arnold.

Born Englishman was unaware of the fact that he is going to change the history of the automotive industry. Initially, Nota cars were limited to use in Australia. However, it explores its business very soon and crossed the boundaries of the Australian region.

About Nota

Guy Buckingham established Nota in 1952. Initially, the firm was located in Oxford. However, due to some personal matters, Guy decided to move to Australia. Thus, the company also shifted to Australia in 1955.

Unique name for the unique company

Like the unique car models, Guy decided to choose the unique name for the company. For that, he was deciding the name, that time his son Christopher came around. Christopher could not pronounce some words properly. He pronounced Motor as Noter, which his father means Guy likes very much. In the end, he comes out with the name Nota. The short form of Noter.

About Founder of Nota- Guy Buckingham

All the credit to establish the strong base of Nota goes to Guy Buckingham. A boy trained to handle the family business of clock repairing and maintenance. However, world War two changed his vision and his interest shifted towards automobiles. Sooner or later, this interest and passion resulted in the establishment of Nota. Let’s see the life journey of Guy Buckingham.

Early life

He was Englishman by birth, born on 11 Feb 1921. During his teenage, he learned mechanical things at a very basic level as a part of family business training. Buckingham’s family had been working in the field of jewelry. As well, famous in the business of timepieces and clocks. Young Guy was trained to work in the family business. In fact, he worked for several years. During World War 2, he worked in Royal Air Force’s Aircraft maintenance. Guy had never thought that his life is gone changed after this incident.

Life-changing incident

An ordinary boy, working in the field of timepieces got noticed by RAF. The officials of RAF found extraordinary talent in Guy and sent him to study aeronautical engineering. After the war ended, he goes back home and joined the family business. But this time, it was completely new Guy, attracted to motoring. Now, he wanted to work in the mechanical field. Thus, he left the family business.

Steps into the Automobile industry

After the end of World War 2 and cars on short supply allowed him to involved in the business he wanted to. Grabbing the golden chance, Guy started to work in car construction during the late 1940s. In 1952, he designed the first car christened Arnold and made his mark in the automotive industry. During this period, he also designed Austin 7 based cars favoring the English style.

The backstory of founding NOTA

Guy had decided to work in the automotive industry. However, the family wanted him to join the family business. This contradiction resulted in inevitable friction in the family. During that period, Guy had crafted his first car model. But due to family clashes, he decided to located in Australia. Fortunately, his uncle was living in Australia, working at Jaguar and Rover as a specialist repairer. Through his uncle, Guy got a job easily in his field of interest.

He continued his passion and set up NOTA in 1955 in Australia. Actually, he had set up this firm at Oxford in 1953 but in 1955 the actual work gets started.

Bottom Line

Apart from designing the cars, Nota also jumped into the making of suspension for all types of vehicles. Over the years, it started repairing-unit for the same. As well, the firm plunged into the construction of competition cars for hill climb and all types of a car race. In fact, it designed the Formula Junior in Australia for the first time.

The founder and mastermind of NOTA, Guy Buckingham died in 2015. Since 1955, Nota is still standing strong and presently the son of Guy handling the business. Currently, LeMans and F1 are the famous models of Nota.