Beaujangle Sales

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Beaujangle Enterprises Limited (1971–1972)
Beaujangle Sales Limited (1972–1973)
legal form Limited
founding 1971
resolution 1973
Seat Manchester
management
  • Nik Sandeman-Allen
  • Phil Smith
  • Kendrick Gough
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Beaujangle Sales Limited , previously Beaujangle Enterprises Limited , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Nik Sandeman-Allen and Phil Smith founded Beaujangle Enterprises Limited in Manchester in 1971 . They started importing kits from the USA . The following year they founded Beaujangle Sales Limited with Kendrick Gough . The production of automobiles and kits began. The brand name was Beaujangle . Production ended in 1973. Lemazone from Leigh continued production between 1985 and 1987. A total of about six copies were made.

vehicles

T-bucket

This kit was imported and found about five buyers between 1971 and 1972. It is described as not very extensive and only cost 30 pounds . The finished vehicle was a hot rod . One vehicle received a V8 engine .

Can-Am

This vehicle was based on the shortened chassis of a VW Beetle . On an open two-seater body was mounted, which removes a race car of the Can-Am was similar. The kit was £ 150. A hardtop with hinged doors was available for an extra charge . Six vehicles were built.

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. 139. (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. 37 (English).
  • James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 94-95 (English).

Web links

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. 139. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d 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. 37 (English).
  3. ↑ James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 94-95 (English).