Dragonfly Cars (Hampshire)

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Dragonfly Cars
legal form
founding 1981
resolution 1986
Seat Ash Vale , Hampshire
management Mervyn Reed
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Dragonfly Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Dan Pratt and Steve Watson founded the company in 1981 in Hook in the county of Hampshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Dragonfly . Mervyn Rees, who served for some time as a director for the company, took over in 1984 and relocated to Ash Vale in Hampshire. Production ended in 1986. A total of about 15 copies were made.

There was no connection with Dragonfly Cars from Nottinghamshire , which manufactured and sold three-wheeled vehicles between 1994 and 1995 with the same company and brand name.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. The chassis of the Austin-Healey Sprite or MG Midget formed the basis, but the front area was extended. The body, in the style of a 1930s roadster , was made of fiberglass . The vehicle was powered by a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1098 cm³ and 56 hp .

According to a source, it took three times the time to assemble compared to a similar model from Arkley Sportscars . The high price and time-consuming assembly resulted in low demand.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Dragonfly.
  • 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. 457. (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. 76 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Dragonfly.
  2. ↑ 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. 457. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c 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. 76 (English).