Percy and Herbert Seabrook established their company (Seabrook Brothers) in 1896 to manufacture parts for the cycle industry and by 1901 had branches in Berlin and New York. From 1911 to 1915 they imported the Regal, built in Detroit, and marketed it in England as the RMC (Regal Motor Car Company) or the Seabrook-RMC from their premises at 57 Great Eastern Street, London EC2. The Regal ceased production in 1920.

During the Great War they imported lorries made by the Napoleon Motors Company, Michigan and Standard Motor Truck Company, Detroit and marketed them as Seabrooks.

Seabrook's own Light Car should have been at the 1919 Olympia Show but was delayed by strikes. The 1920 show lists a Seabrook-RMC, this was not similar to any Regal model and it is likely that a mistake was made in the show catalogue and this was Seabrook's Light Car. In 1926 the company moved to 107 Kings Road, Chelsea, London SW3.

No cars were made after 1928, by now Austin and Morris were dominating the market. The brothers both retired in 1926 and Frank Burgess took over the company and the last two or three years production may have been built from existing stock.

Possibly the only survivor is a derelict example.

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