B&S Sports Cars

B&S Sports Cars
legal form
founding	1988
resolution	1989
Seat	Birmingham
management	Ben Sparham
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

B&S Sports Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ben Sparham founded the company in Birmingham in 1988 . He took over two projects from Edward Waddington Motors and began producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was BS . Production ended in 1989. A total of about eight copies were made.

vehicles

There were two roadsters on offer . Both models were powered by the four-cylinder engine from the Ford Cortina . They were placed in the lower price segment of kit cars and competed with models from Dutton Cars . The BS Roadster followed the EWM Brigand and found around six buyers. The BS Sprint as the successor to the EWM Buccaneer had around two copies.

literature

• 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. 512. (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. 44 (English).

Web links

• Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 512. (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. 44 (English).