Bamby Cars

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Bamby Cars Limited

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legal form Limited
founding 1982
resolution 1985
Seat Leeds , Yorkshire , UK
management Alan Evans
Branch Automobiles

Bamby from 1984

Bamby Cars Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Alan Evans founded on 18 March 1982, the company in Leeds in the county of Yorkshire . He started producing automobiles in 1983. The brand name was Bamby . Production ended in 1985. The London Gazette announced on March 22, 1985 that a creditors' meeting would be held on April 3. A total of around 50 vehicles were built.

In 2011 Evans founded Bambycars and has been manufacturing vehicles again since then.

vehicles

The only model was a single-seat microcar . The body was made of glass fiber reinforced plastic . A special feature was the wing door with which the first models were equipped. Later models had a normally hinged door. The tricycle had a rear single wheel. A moped engine with 50 cm³ displacement , which came either from Minarelli , Suzuki or Yamaha , propelled the vehicle. The curb weight was given as 107 kg. The price of £ 1,389 plus tax was too high for any major market success.

  • Early version with only one headlight ...

  • ... as well as a wing door on the left side of the vehicle.

  • Late version with two headlights ...

  • ... as well as the door hinged at the front.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bamby Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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 Bamby.
  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. 130. (English)
  3. ↑ opencorporates (English, accessed on August 12, 2017)
  4. ↑ The London Gazette, March 22, 1985 (accessed August 12, 2017)