| CHEVROLET | Louis ?, Swiss racing driver who co-founded a motor car company in Detroit, US, in 1911 |
| PORSCHE | Ferdinand ---, Austrian automotive engineer who founded a motor vehicle consulting firm in 1931 (7) |
| ALINGHI | Swiss racing syndicate in America's Cup (7) |
| ROYCE | Henry, English engineer who co-founded a famous motor car company (5) |
| ENZOFERRARI | Italian motor racing driver who founded a luxury sports car company in 1939 (4,7) |
| MAYER | Louis B. ---, Russianborn US film producer who co-founded a film studio in 1924 (5) |
| AUSTIN | Motor company founded in 1905 by the former manager of the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company (6) |
| ANDREMICHELIN | Industrialist who co-founded a tyre company and published a tour guide (5,8) |
| SQUAB | A carriage cushion; a padded ottoman/sofa; a well-stuffed bolster; a back part of a motor car seat; a fledgeling dove, pigeon, rook or other young bird; or, the flesh of the aforesaid columbiformes as |
| ROEPER | Educator Annemarie who co-founded a school in Greater Detroit |
| LAUDER | Estee ****** , businesswoman born in 1908 who co-founded a cosmetics company (6) |
| HAWKER | Harry ___, Australian aviation pioneer who co-founded a firm that built a long series of successful military aircraft |
| HYATT | ____ von Dehn, U.S. businessman who co-founded a hotel chain in the 1950s (5) |
| CHOO | Malaysian footwear designer who co-founded a fashion house specialising in shoes (4) |
| ROLLS | Charles -, motoring and aviation pioneer who co-founded a car manufacturing firm (5) |
| MARKS | Michael ---, businessman who co-founded a retail chain with Thomas Spencer in the late 19th Century (5) |
| MASERATI | Alfieri, Ernesto and Ettore, Italian brothers who founded a car company in 1914 (8) |
| RENAULT | Fernand, Louis and Marcel, French brothers who formed a car company in 1899 (7) |
| PEUGEOT | The oldest car company in the world, founded in France in 1810 (7) |
| DRBOB | Physician who co-founded A.A., familiarly |
