Dunsmore Motor Traction

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Dunsmore Motor Traction

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founding 1984
resolution 1996
Seat Stretton-on-Dunsmore , Warwickshire
management Bill Hines
Branch Automobiles

Dunsmore
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Dunsmore Motor Traction was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1984 Bill Hines founded the company in Stretton-on-Dunsmore in the county Warwickshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Dunsmore . Production ended in 1996. A total of about 14 copies were made.

vehicles

Roadsters in the style of the 1930s were on offer . They were based on vehicles from Jaguar Cars and had a steel ladder frame. Panels made of plywood or steel were mounted on a body made of steel tubes . The prototype drove a six-cylinder engine from Vauxhall Ventora on. This vehicle, unlike the following, had a rear axle from the Austin Westminster . The majority of the vehicles were powered by a Jaguar engine. However, V8 engines from Rover and a six-cylinder engine with a displacement of 4000 cm³ from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars have also survived.

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. 466. (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. 77 (English).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 466. (English)
  2. ↑ 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. 77 (English).