Church Green Engineering

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Church Green Engineering Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1977
resolution 1997
Seat Reading , Berkshire
management
  • Nicholas Henry Gold
  • Paul Frederick Edward Weldon
  • Peter John Scott
Branch Automobiles

Church Green Engineering Limited was a British company in the automotive and former automobile manufacturer.

Company history

The company was on November 22, 1977 in East Knoyle in the county of Wiltshire as a restoration operation founded. The company manufactured automobiles between 1978 and 1983. The brand name was Gozzy . A total of six copies were made. Four vehicles are said to still exist today. John Richard Hesketh Richards, Nicholas Henry Gold, Paul Frederick Edward Weldon and Peter John Scott served as Directors from November 30, 1991, the former resigning on January 30, 1995. The company was later based near Shaftesbury in Dorset and finally in Reading , Berkshire . On June 14, 1995 financial difficulties arose and on September 9, 1997 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

After the restoration of a Mercedes-Benz SSK for a Japanese client, there was a demand for replicas of the vehicle. Len Terry was involved in the construction. The chassis got the suspension from the Leyland Sherpa . A six-cylinder engine with 2800 cm³ displacement from Daimler-Benz powered the vehicle. The body was made of aluminum . The new price was about 250,000 DM or from 30,000 pounds .

The British automobile magazine Autocar reported on the vehicle in its November 7, 1981 issue.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Gozzy.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 640. (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Gozzy.
  2. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 640. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d opencorporates.com (English, accessed September 1, 2015)
  4. ↑ anamera.com (accessed January 11, 2015)