Auto body craft

Auto body craft
legal form
founding	1969
resolution	1973
Seat	Brierley Hill , United Kingdom
management	Ken Heather, Bill Powell (until 1971)
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Auto Body Craft was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ken Heather and Bill Powell founded the company in Kingswinford in 1969 and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was ABC . In 1971 there was a change of ownership and the move to Brierley Hill . Production ended in 1973. Overall, depending on the source, either about 25 or about 30 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Tricar . These were tricycles. The front corresponded to the Mini . There was only one wheel in the rear. It was the first British mini-based tricycle. Initially the bodies were made of metal , after 1971 made of fiberglass . The open body offered space for two people.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter ABC (VI).
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 6. (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. 17 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed December 12, 2014)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter ABC (VI).
↑ ^a ^b ^c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 6. (English)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 17 (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 ABC (VI).

[Beaulieu-2] George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 6. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 17 (English).