GE engineering

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GE Engineering PLC
legal form PLC
founding 1988
resolution 1989
Seat Mere , Wiltshire
management John Payne, Michael Hart
Branch Automobile manufacturer

GE Engineering PLC was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John Payne and Michael Hart founded the company in 1988 in Mere in the county of Wiltshire . They took over a project from Gravetti Engineering and started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was GE . Production ended in 1989.

CK Automotive from Maidstone continued production until 1998, using the brand name CK .

vehicles

The only model was the 427 . This was the successor to the Gravetti 427 . It was a replica of the AC Cobra . The base was a tubular space frame. A two-seater body made of aluminum and aramid fiber-reinforced polyester was mounted on top . The suspension came from Jaguar Cars . Different engines from the V6 engine from Ford to V8 engines from Chevrolet , Ford and Rover to the V12 engine from Jaguar were available for the vehicles.

A total of about 70 copies of the model 427 were made by the three manufacturers.

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 110 (English).