BWE Sportscars

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BWE Sportscars
legal form
founding 1994
resolution 2014 or later
Seat Barnsley , South Yorkshire
management Bev Evans
Branch Automobile manufacturer

BWE Hornet

BWE Sportscars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1994 Bev Evans founded the company in Barnsley in the county of South Yorkshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name is u. a. BWE . A total of over 100 copies were made.

Bev Evans passed away on April 10, 2014 and BWE Sportscars stopped selling.

vehicles

Brand name BWE

The Hornet model was taken over by T & J Sportscars in 1994 . This was a Lotus Seven- style vehicle . Many parts initially came from the Ford Cortina and from 2002 from the Ford Sierra .

The Locust model was adopted by White Rose Vehicles in 2000 . It is also similar to the Lotus Seven.

Brand name Maelstrom

From 2002 BWE Sportscars produced the Maelstrom after the production was taken over by White Rose Vehicles.

literature

  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1594 (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. 122, 148 and 155 (English).

Web links

Commons : BWE Sportscars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1594 (English).
  2. ^ 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. 122, 148 and 155 (English).
  3. ↑ locust.org . Retrieved June 14, 2020.