Named after the island Ailsa Craig, the company began as a bicycle manufacturer in Glasgow in 1891, later moving to Putney, in London where the then owner went into partnership and set about building early vehicles, going on to produce the world's first V12 engine and even a petrol engined vacuum cleaner for Hubert Cecil Booth in 1904.
The managing director was Hubert Cecil Booth who the company claimed had in fact invented the vacuum cleaner in about 1900, and which was subsequently copied in the USA and elsewhere.
Cecil B. DeMille | Hubert Humphrey | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | John Wilkes Booth | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Cecil Rhodes | Cecil Taylor | Edwin Booth | William Cecil | Hubert Parry | Cecil Sharp | Cecil Beaton | Tim Booth | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury | Hubert Robert | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Cecil | Booth Tarkington | Junius Brutus Booth | Hubert von Herkomer | Hubert Laws | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | Hubert Gough | Robert Cecil | Hubert Burda Media | James Hubert Blake High School | Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington | Cecil Raleigh | Cecil Parkinson | Shirley Booth |