Grantura Plastics

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Grantura Plastics
legal form
founding 1966
resolution 1974
Seat Blackpool
management John Ward, Bernard Williams, Tommy Entwistle
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Grantura Plastics was a British manufacturer of automobiles and bodywork .

Company history

John Ward, Bernard Williams and Tommy Entwistle founded the company in Blackpool in 1966 . Initially, they manufactured bodies for TVR . In 1968 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Grantura . Production ended in 1973 or 1974. A total of about 150 copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the Gem . Like the Trident before , it built on the TVR. It was slightly longer at the rear than a typical TVR and had a rectangular vehicle front. The coupé body was made of fiberglass and offered space for two people. The carriage of a powered V6 engine of Ford with 3000 cc displacement . This model was in the range from 1968 to 1973 or 1974.

1969 appeared the identical models Yak and Yeoman . They were open leisure cars in the style of the Mini Moke . The basis was the Mini . By 1970 150 copies were produced, both fully assembled and as a kit .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter GEM (II) and Grantura.
  • 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 , pp. 645-646. (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. 110 (English).

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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 GEM (II) and Grantura.
  2. ↑ a b c 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 , pp. 645-646. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c 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).