Dial Plastics

Dial Plastics
legal form
founding	1969
resolution	1971
Seat	Grays
management	Frank Sheen
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Dial Plastics was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frank Sheen founded the company in Grays in 1969 and began producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Dial . In 1971 a vehicle was presented at the Racing Car Show . Production ended in the same year. A total of about 20 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Buccaneer . This was a flat sports car . The coupé body had gullwing doors . The basis was a spaceframe. A line engine from Ford was behind the seats in mid-engine layout mounted. The transmission came from Volkswagen and the wheel suspensions from Triumph .

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. 434. (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. 73 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed December 12, 2014)

Individual evidence

^ ^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. 434. (English)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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. 73 (English).

[Beaulieu-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. 434. (English)

[Kit_Cars-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. 73 (English).