Connaught Motor Company

Connaught Motor Company Limited
legal form	Limited
founding	2002
resolution	2016
Seat	Kidderminster , Worcestershire
management	Frederick William Austin Page-Roberts Geoffrey Leonard Matthews Christopher James Withington Timothy Bishop Roy Irish Anthony Martindale
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Connaught Type-D GT Syracuse

Connaught Motor Company Limites was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Edward Timothy Bishop and Anthony Martindale founded on 29 June 2002, the company in Kidderminster in the county of Worcestershire . They started producing automobiles in 2005. The brand name is Connaught , based on Connaught Engineering . In 2007 a technology center opened in Llanelli , Wales . Bishop and Martindale gave up their directorship on March 28, 2007 and were replaced by Frederick William Austin Page-Roberts. Jonathan Mark Bevan and Geoffrey Leonard Matthews were also appointed directors on November 14, 2007, Christopher James Withington on February 26, 2008, and Kevin Eric Eagling on July 1, 2009. Bevan and Eagling were appointed on May 12, 2011 by Timothy Bishop, Roy Irish and Anthony Martindale replaced. The company was dissolved on March 1, 2016.

The company sold six vehicles in the first year.

vehicles

The Type-D GT Syracuse appeared as the first model . A V10 engine with a capacity of 2000 cm³ produces 300 hp with the help of a compressor . The maximum speed of the four-seater coupé is specified as 270 km / h.

With a hybrid drive which is Type-D h equipped, based on the Type-D GT Syracuse.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Connaught Motor Company  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Company website ( Memento of November 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed September 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Connaught (II).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} companycheck.co.uk (English, accessed September 1, 2015)
3. ↑ opencorporates.com (accessed September 1, 2015)