Cleco Electric Industries

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Cleco Electric Industries Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1936
resolution 1957
Seat Leicester
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Cleco Electric Industries Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Leicester company started producing commercial vehicles in 1936 . In addition, six cars were built between 1936 and 1940. The brand name was Cleco . Production ended in 1957.

vehicles

The company made electric cars. The only car model was a sedan , similar to the VW Beetle . The wheelbase was 1981 mm. The range is given as 88 km (at a speed of 23 km) or 120 km, depending on the source. The original price was £ 375 . That was three times the price of a comparable gasoline car like the Morris Eight .

literature

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

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 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.