Chesil Motor Company

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Chesil Motor Company (1991–2004)
Chesil (2004–2007)
Tygan Motor Company (2007–2008)
Chesil Motor Company (since 2009)
legal form Company
founding 1991
Seat Burton Bradstock , Dorset , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management Peter Bailey
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.chesil.co.uk

Chesil Speedster

Chesil Motor Company , previously Chesil and Tygan Motor Company , is a British manufacturer of automobiles . Other sources use the name Chesil Speedsters .

Company history

1991 Peter Bailey founded the company Chesil Motor Company in Burton Bradstock in the county of Dorset . He took over a project from Street Beetle and started making automobiles and kits . The brand name is Chesil . Angus McCubbin and Jerry Baker managed the successor company Chesil from 2004 to 2007 . This was followed by Tygan Motor Company from Beaminster from 2007 to 2008, headed by Graham Lee. In 2009 the company was renamed Chesil Motor Company under the direction of Peter Bailey. A total of around 500 vehicles have been built so far.

vehicles

The first and best-selling model is the Speedster . This is the replica of the Porsche 356 as a Speedster. The 10 3 / 4 inch shortened chassis of the Volkswagen Beetle and an additional tubular frame made of steel form the base. A body made of glass fiber reinforced plastic is mounted on top. Since 2010, Chesil, in cooperation with Inrekor from the USA, has been offering a more modern chassis that can be equipped with more powerful engines.

The RS 60 was on offer between 2005 and 2006 and found two buyers. It was a replica of the Porsche 718 .

In addition, imported Spyder from the manufacturer Rudolph Perfect Roadster were offered as 550 Spyder from 1996 to around 2008 .

The auction house Silverstone Auctions auctioned a vehicle from 2003 with the British license plate L 4 SLX for 18,984 pounds on August 25, 2012 .

In 2019 Westfield Sportscars took over Chesil Motor Company.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Chesil.
  • 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. 270. (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. 55-56 (English).

Web links

Commons : Chesil Motor Company  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 55-56 (English).
  2. Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Chesil.
  3. 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. 270. (English)
  4. Auction 2012 (accessed on August 10, 2015)
  5. https://westfield-sportscars.co.uk/westfield-sportscars-purchases-chesil-motor-company/