Buckland Cars

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Buckland Cars
legal form
founding 1988
resolution 1999
Reason for dissolution Illness of the owner
Seat Llanwern at Newport , Gwent
management Dick Buckland
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Buckland B 3

Buckland Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Dick Buckland developed an automobile and presented it at a kit car show in Stoneleigh in 1985 . The production and marketing of automobiles and kits was initially carried out together with Laurie Weeks by the Light Car & Cycle Restoration Company . In 1988 he founded Buckland Cars in his hometown of Llanwern near Newport in the Welsh county of Gwent . The brand name was Buckland . Production ended in 1999 when Dick Buckland fell ill. A total of twelve copies were made.

Penguin Speed ​​Shop from Sarn in Flintshire under the direction of John Wilcox has continued production since 2011 while retaining the brand name.

vehicles

The only model was the B 3 . It was a tricycle with a single rear wheel. The base was a tubular frame. An open two-seater body made of fiberglass was mounted on top. A four cylinder engine of Ford 1300 cc displacement , and 90 to 100 PS performance was arranged at the front in the vehicle, driving via a chain to the rear wheel.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Buckland chapter.
  • 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. 208. (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. 45 (English).

Web links

Commons : Buckland Cars  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Buckland chapter.
  2. ↑ 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. 208. (English)
  3. ↑ 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. 45 (English).