The Newton Bennett was a car advertised and sold by a Manchester, England, based company between 1911 and 1925 but made in Italy. John Bennett was a Manchester car dealer selling locally made Belsize cars and holding agencies for several French makes. This merged with a similar company, Bennett and Carlisle to become Newton-Bennett. As well as selling cars they manufactured vehicle parts and R.O. Harper was employed as works manager.In 1907 they became agents for the Italian SCAT and Harper was sent to Turin to help develop a car specifically to be sold by Newton-Bennett but this never got beyond a prototype. Instead, they purchased a complete factory, also in Turin, that had made the VALT car. With Harper installed at the new factory, he designed a car which would be badged as a Newton-Be