Bill Badsey Racing USA

Bill Badsey Racing USA, Inc.
legal form	Incorporated
founding	1982
resolution	21st century
Seat	Ventura , California , USA
management	William John Badsey
Branch	Motor vehicles

Bill Badsey Racing USA, Inc. was a United States automobile manufacturer .

description

The South African William John Badsey (* January 7, 1940 - February 19, 2001), or Bill Badsey for short , had manufactured three-wheeled automobiles in South Africa in 1981 in his company of the same name, Bill Badsey . Production ended there in 1983. Already on September 8, 1982 he founded in Ventura in the US state California Bill Badsey Racing USA, Inc. , where he continued the production. The brand name was still Badsey . Production ran until 1999. From the 1980s onwards, the company also manufactured electric scooters as the EMX product line .

The company last named Rosemead , California. It is not known when the company was dissolved. The last archived version of the website is from 2014.

Automobiles

→ Main article : Badsey Bullet

Badsey manufactured the Badsey Bullet from 1981, first in South Africa and from 1983 in the USA. This was a tricycle with a rear single wheel. In 1983 or around 1998 this model was discontinued. Eight vehicles were produced from this. The Unique Vehicle & Accessory Company from England offered the model as a kit and as a complete vehicle in England from 1982, but did not sell anything.

The Badsey Fun Machine was designed similarly. It was in the range from 1984 to the 1990s and found few buyers.

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. 126. (English)
• Chris Rees: Three Wheelers A – Z. The definitive encyclopedia of three-wheeled vehicles from 1940 to date. Quiller Print, Croydon 2013, ISBN 978-0-9926651-0-4 , p. 31. (English)
• Elvis Payne: The AZ of Three-Wheelers. A definitive reference guide. Nostalgia Road, Manchester 2013, ISBN 9781908-347169 , pp. 27-28. (English)

Web links

• Company website ( Memento of December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• older website of the company ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Report on William John Badsey on the occasion of his death ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 126. (English)
2. ↑ www.californiacompanieslist.com (accessed June 12, 2016)
3. ↑ www.perfectleads.com (accessed June 12, 2016)
4. ↑ www.ishcc.com (accessed June 12, 2016)
5. ↑ Allcarindex (accessed June 12, 2016)
6. ^ Badsey Electric Scooters. sd-electric-scooters.com, accessed May 13, 2019 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} Elvis Payne: The AZ of Three-Wheelers. A definitive reference guide. Nostalgia Road, Manchester 2013, ISBN 9781908-347169 , pp. 27-28. (English)
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chris Rees: Three Wheelers A – Z. The definitive encyclopedia of three-wheeled vehicles from 1940 to date. Quiller Print, Croydon 2013, ISBN 978-0-9926651-0-4 , p. 31. (English)