Emmbrook Engineering

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Emmbrook Engineering Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1971
resolution 1974
Seat South Willingham , Lincolnshire
management Bill Atkinson, Tony Waller
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Emmbrook Engineering Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Bill Atikinson and that Tony Waller previously at Piper Cars worked, founded in 1971, the company in Wokingham in the county of Berkshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was still Piper . In 1973 the company moved to South Willingham in Lincolnshire . Production ended in 1974. A total of over 40 copies were made. The company also made a model that was marketed as the Emmbrook .

vehicles

From Piper P 2 41 units were built.

The Emmbrook 3000 GT had a tubular space frame. A V6 engine from Ford with 3000 cm³ displacement and 140 hp propelled the vehicle. The top speed was given as 215 km / h.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Emmbrook and Piper (I).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1235. (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. 198 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Emmbrook and Piper (I).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1235. (English)
  3. ^ A b 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. 198 (English).