Auto body craft

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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

Individual evidence

  1. 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).
  2. 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)
  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).