Carisma Engineering

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Carisma Engineering Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1989
resolution 1992
Seat Sandy , Bedfordshire
management
  • Andrew Charles Hobbs
  • Rosemary Hobbs
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Carisma Century
Carisma Century
Emblem of the Carisma Century

Carisma Engineering Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Andrew Charles Hobbs and Glyn Ford founded the company in 1989 in Sandy in the county of Bedfordshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Carisma . Andrew Charles Hobbs and Rosemary Hobbs were later the directors. Production ended in 1992.

Scorhill Motors from Walton-on-Thames in Surrey continued production while retaining the brand name. A total of about 37 copies were made.

vehicles

The vehicles were based on a steel ladder frame. An open body, which was mainly made of fiberglass , was mounted on it. Only the sides of the bonnet were made of aluminum . The vehicles were similar to the SS 100 from the 1930s. A four-cylinder engine from the Ford Cortina powered the vehicles.

About 35 copies of the two-seater Century were made. The four-seater Manhattan appeared in 1992 and was less successful with about two copies sold.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Carisma.
  • 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. 248. (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. 51 (English).

Web links

Commons : Carisma Engineering  - collection of images, 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 , chapter Carisma.
  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. 248. (English)
  3. ↑ opencorporates.com (accessed September 1, 2015)
  4. ↑ 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. 51 (English).