AG Thorpe Developments

AG Thorpe Developments
legal form
founding	1979
resolution	1985
Seat	Burton-upon-Trent , Staffordshire , United Kingdom
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

AG Thorpe Developments was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from Darley Abbey in County Derbyshire began in 1979 with the modification and in 1983 with the production of automobiles and kits . The brand name was Shelsley . In 1983 the company moved to Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire . Production ended in 1985.

vehicles

Between 1979 and 1985 the company offered conversion kits called Custom Spridget . These conversion kits included a new fiberglass front for the Austin-Healey Sprite and MG Midget . 40 of these were sold.

The Spyder was a complete vehicle and also available as a kit . The base was either the chassis of the Triumph Herald or Triumph Vitesse or a ladder frame that took an engine from Ford or Lotus Cars . The 1930s-style open body was similar to the Alfa Romeo sports cars of the time . A total of about five copies were made.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Shelsley.
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1444. (English)
Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 64 and 230 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Shelsley.
^ ^A ^b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1444. (English)
^ ^A ^b Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 64 and 230 (English).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Shelsley.

[Beaulieu-2] A ^b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1444. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] A ^b Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 64 and 230 (English).