Cygnet Cars

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Cygnet Cars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1982
resolution 1985
Seat Wootton , Northamptonshire
management Peter Child
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Cygnet Cars Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Peter Child, previously at Aston Martin worked, founded in 1982, the company in Kislingbury in the county of Northamptonshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Cygnet . In 1984 the company moved to Wootton , also in Northamptonshire. Production ended in 1985. A total of about twelve copies were made.

vehicles

The first and best-selling model was the Monaco . It was a four-seater coupe based on the Ford Cortina . One source calls the design terrible and completely disregarded any sense of quality . About ten copies were made between 1982 and 1985.

The Cygnetina was the convertible version of the Monaco . Only one copy was made during the same period.

The roadster from 1983 remained a one-off. It was a 1930s-style roadster . It had the same base as the Monaco .

literature

  • 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. 361. (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. 64 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 361. (English)
  2. ↑ 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. 64 (English).