The Stellite was produced by the Electric and Ordnance Company, part of Vickers with a factory in Birmingham and it was introduced in 1913. It had a wooden chassis, two-speed gearbox and worm final drive.

During WWI, the company built a new factory just outside Birmingham at a distance safe for a munitions factory with a vast output of high explosive shells.

In 1919 Vickers transferred the plant to another subsidiary, the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company. Wolseley also inherited the Stellite light car which continued in production for a time with a new three-speed gearbox. It was soon superseded by their own new light car, the Ten, which used some of the Stellite’s chassis design features.