Beaver (make of car)

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Beaver was a British car brand.

Brand history

Gordon Summers founded in 1984 Kit Cars International in Barnsley in the county of South Yorkshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Beaver . Richard Oakes was involved in the design . John Ingram was in charge of the fiberglass . Production initially ended in 1985.

1991 Steve Barwell founded the company Beaver Coachworks in South Woodham Ferrers in the county of Essex . He took over the Beaver project from Kit Cars International. The brand name was still Beaver . Production ended in 1992. A total of about 48 copies were made.

vehicles

The basis of the vehicles was a steel chassis . Then one was body made of fiberglass mounted. It was a small two-door station wagon . Many parts such as the windshield , doors, four-cylinder engine and drive came from the Ford Escort .

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).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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 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).