The British city of Blackpool is one of several communities in the British Isles where automotive design is still practiced. At one time the nation was home to many small and independent auto manufacturers. Blackpool, Coventry and Abingdon were just a few of the towns where the British auto industry flourished.

Blackpoo l remains the home of an automotive design center and college. The design college in Blackpool provides a degree program in automotive design and engineering for students seeking to enter the world of automotive design. The company, known as Blackpool Automotive, has gone through administration and is attempting to emerge from this process. Assets of the company belong to the automotive entrepreneur Nikolai Smolenski. The purchase of the assets was completed from the administrator after the company passed through the process in 2007.

Blackpool Automotive was well known for its manufacturing innovations during the mid twentieth century. The company produced many exciting cars and assisted in the design of others for worldwide distribution. Since the administration the company has been divided into several smaller units and Blackpool Automotive retains the manufacturing equipment and operational plant in Blackpool, Lancashire. This includes the innovative manufacturing techniques and equipment that made the cars produced here some of the best in the world.