Camber Cars

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Camber Cars
legal form
founding 1966
resolution 1967
Seat Rye
management George Holmes, Derek Bishop
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Camber Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George Holmes, an agricultural engineer from Camber Sands , and Derek Bishop, from Greenwich , who previously ran Heron Plastics , founded the company in Rye in 1966 and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was Camber . The marketing was carried out by Checkpoint Ltd . Production ended in 1967. A total of six copies were made. George Holmes manufactured six more vehicles by 1969 in his new company W. West Engineers in Camber Sands and marketed them as Maya .

vehicles

The only model was the GT , presented at the London Racing Car Show in January 1967 . The basis was a tubular frame with an auxiliary frame and a four-cylinder engine from the Mini . The two-seater coupé body was made of fiberglass . The front headlights were illegally placed low, so the sixth vehicle was modified in this regard.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Camber.
  • 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. 241. (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. 49 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Camber.
  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. 241. (English)
  3. ^ A b 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. 49 (English).