Complex sentence: Meanwhile the British government had decided to start production in Britain also: 1500 vehicles were ordered from "North British Locomotive Company", "William Beardmores Company" and "Metropolitan", using a 300 hp (220 kW) V12 Ricardo engine.
Split into simpler sentences: Meanwhile the British government had decided to start production in Britain. One thousand five hundred vehicles were ordered from the "North British Locomotive Company", "William Beardmores Company" and "Metropolitan", using a 300 hp (220 kW) V12 Ricardo engine.