About Us

A brief look at the history of The Jankel Group.

During the 1980's Jankel produced many hundreds of coach built limousines based on Rolls Royce, Bentley, Mercedes, Jaguar and Range Rover vehicles, the period 1983 - 1989 saw Jankel produce 127 Rolls Royce Silver Spur II Limousines for the Rolls Royce factory as exclusive sub-contractor.

During the 1980's and 1990's in response to client's requirements Jankel began to produce highly bespoke armoured limousines for Heads of State around the world, these vehicles took the form of armoured standard luxury vehicles and extended and raised roof armoured vehicles. Between 1983 and 1989, Jankel were the exclusive sub-contractors to Rolls Royce Motor Cars for the Silver Spur 44” extended limousine. During this contract Jankel built approximately 130 extended vehicles.

Other projects around this time included the Jankel Gold Label and Tempest sport cars, the latter holding the Guinness World Record 0-60 mph timing at 3.89 seconds in 1992.

In 1995 Jankel began development of a family of armoured Law Enforcement vehicles based on heavy duty General Motors and Ford 4 x 4 truck chassis, this family of vehicles now has 5 variants which all are fully proven and in service with the UK Ministry Of Defence, Metropolitan Police and other Law Enforcement Agencies worldwide.

In response to a heightening in security concerns world-wide, Jankel has responded by developing low cost, short production time armoured Toyota LandCruiser vehicles for personnel protection roles in the more volatile areas of the world.

More recently Jankel has formed a Joint Venture relationship with the King Abdullah II Design And Development Bureau ( KADDB ) of Jordan. The production facility, Jordan Light Vehicle Manufacturing LLC is in operation in Jordan building a wide variety of vehicles for civilian and law enforcement requirements.

Today Jankel is at the forefront of a number of specialised markets, these markets require original and creative thinking to enable Jankel to provide world-beating vehicle programmes.

Jankel has been involved in a wide range of special vehicle projects since 1955 which has included the Panther Car, the Jankel Tempest and Gold Label Sports Cars and numerous bespoke limousine build programmes.