Argyle (automobile manufacturer)

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Argyle
legal form
founding 1971
resolution 1972
Seat United Kingdom
management Kim Argyle
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Argyle was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Kim Argyle, who was also involved in building the first Mosquito , founded the company in 1971 and began manufacturing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Trimin . Production ended in 1972. A total of three copies were made that still exist today.

vehicles

The only model was a tricycle with a rear single wheel. The Mini formed the basis . An open body without doors was mounted on it. A four-cylinder engine from the Mini was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the front wheels. Two of the vehicles were two-seaters. They were given a street legal and the British Mark GOM 666 D or AJB 783 B .

A third vehicle was a single-seater intended for record attempts. It was not street legal.

literature

  • 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. 259 (English).
  • Chris Rees: Three Wheelers A – Z. The definitive encyclopedia of three-wheeled vehicles from 1940 to date. Quiller Print, Croydon 2013, ISBN 978-0-9926651-0-4 , p. 205. (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 259 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Mosquito and Triad registers ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed on January 11, 2015)