GSM cars

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GSM Cars Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1960
resolution 1961
Seat West Malling , Kent , England
management Willie Meissner, Bob van Niekirk
Branch Automobile manufacturer

GSM Cars Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Willie Meissner and Bob van Niekerk, who founded Glass Sports Motor in Cape Town in 1958 , founded the company in 1960. The location was on London Road in West Malling . The production of automobiles and kits began. The brand name was GSM . Production ended in October 1961. In total, around 50 vehicles or 76 vehicles were built in England .

vehicles

The first model was the Delta , which appeared in 1960 and was available until 1961. This was a coupe . A four-cylinder engine of Ford of Britain drove the vehicles. 35 of these were made. In 1961 the Delta Fastback with hatchback added to the range. 15 pieces of this model were produced.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter GSM
  • 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. 652. (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. 112 (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 GSM
  2. ↑ 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. 652. (English)
  3. ↑ 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. 112 (English).
  4. ↑ cartorque (accessed on July 10, 2016)