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Cyril Kieft was born in [[Swansea]] and spent his early working life in the steel industry. After the second World war he started up his own company Cyril Kieft and Co Ltd in [[Bridgend]], Glamorgan making fordings and pressings including components for the motor industry. He had an interest in motor racing and when the [[Marwyn]] company, who had built [[Formula Junior]] cars, failed he bought the designs and used them as a base for his own 500cc car. Several of these were sold and some competioncompetition sucesssuccess resulted. Publicity was gained by succesfulsuccessful attempts on a series of records at [[Montlhéry]] in France. One of the drivers was [[Stirling Moss]] who explained the shortcomings of the cars. As a result of this a new design was acquired and Moss joined the company which moved to new premises at Reliance Works in Derry Street, Wolverhampton.

Kieft Cars left Wolverhampton in 1956 and moved to nearby Birmingham where they concntratedconcentrated on preparing and tuning other makes of cars. There were plans for a return to making Kieft cars but these filedfailed to materialise. The company was sold again in 1960 and changed its name to Burmans.