Butterfield Engineering

Butterfield Engineering
legal form
founding	1961
resolution	1963
Seat	Nazeing
management	Richard Butterfield
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Butterfield Engineering was a British manufacturer of automobiles and kits .

Company history

Richard Butterfield founded the company in 1961. The seat was on Paynes Lane in Nazeing . He started with the production of automobiles with the support of Francis Manning. The brand name was Butterfield . In January 1962 a vehicle was presented at the Racing Car Show . Production ended in 1963. A total of four copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the musketeer . It was the world's first mini kit car . The Mini formed the basis, albeit with a tubular frame. A fiberglass body was mounted on top. There was a choice of a coupé or a convertible . The four-cylinder engines of the Mini with 848 cm³ and 998 cm³ displacement were available. The high price of £ 848 , double the price of a Mini, kept demand low.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Butterfield.
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. 227. (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. 48 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed December 12, 2014)
Insight into the book Maximum Mini (accessed December 17, 2014)

Individual evidence

↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Butterfield.
^ ^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. 227. (English)
↑ ^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. 48 (English).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Butterfield.

[Beaulieu-2] 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. 227. (English)

[Kit_Cars-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. 48 (English).