FES (automobile manufacturer)

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FES
legal form
founding 1988
resolution 1989 or 1990
Seat Beith , Ayrshire
management Stan Forsyth
Branch Automobile manufacturer

FES was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Stan Forsyth founded the company in Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1988 . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was FES . Production ended in 1989 or 1990. A total of about three copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Briton . This was the successor to the model from the ISS Car Company . The basis of the vehicles was the revised chassis of the VW Beetle . A one-piece body made of fiberglass was mounted on top. The doors were made of particularly thick, double-walled GRP. The roadster body offered space for two people. The four - cylinder boxer engine from the VW Beetle was mounted in the rear and drove the rear axle.

Cartell from Haydock on Merseyside continued production until 1990, although it remains unclear whether the brand name remains unclear: either FES or Kestrel again.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – 0. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 820. (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. 95 and 136 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 820. (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. 95 and 136 (English).