Haldane Motor Company

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Haldane Developments Limited (1988–1999)
Haldane Motor Company (1994–2008)
legal form Company
founding 1988
resolution 2008
Seat Henfield , West Sussex , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management Tony Holmes
Branch Automobiles

Haldane HD 100
Haldane HD 300

Haldane Motor Company , previously Haldane Developments Limited , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John Haldane founded Haldane Developments Limited on September 15, 1988 in Glasgow , Scotland . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Haldane . In 1993 Brian Harrison and Alisdair Scott took over production. In 1994 the liquidation began and on January 22, 1999 it was dissolved. In 1994 Pilgrim Cars took over the company and ran it as Haldane Motor Company in Henfield , West Sussex . Production ended in 2008. A total of about 136 copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the HD 100 . This was a replica of the Austin-Healey 100 . A body made of fiberglass was mounted on a chassis developed in-house . The four-cylinder engine came from the Vauxhall Chevette . From 1993, a revised chassis to accommodate Ford engines came out. About 100 copies were made between 1987 and 1994.

In 1991 the HD 300 added to the range. It was based on the Austin Healey 3000 and otherwise corresponded to the first model. About 36 copies were made by 2008.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Haldane.
  • 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. 662. (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. 116 (English).

Web links

Commons : Haldane Motor Company  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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 Haldane.
  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. 662. (English)
  3. ↑ a b opencorporates.com (accessed September 1, 2015)
  4. ↑ 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. 116 (English).