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Doktor ingenieur Michael James Richard Mantelson, III (March 3, 1887-September 23, 1964), better known as James Mantelson, was an English engineer and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Mantelson Motors, and one of the three founders of Carmenopa Motors, as well as the designer of what would become the KM 334 supercar.

He was born in Manchester, England in 1887, and attended Oxford University. He graduated in 1909 with a doctorate in engineering, and founded Mantelson Motors in 1934.

In 1954, he made a design for a concept car for the company, and it first went on sale 4 years later. He died on September 23, 1964 in Surrey, ten years to the day after he created the concept.