Hazeldine Motors

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Hazeldine Motors
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founding 1940s
resolution 1951
Seat Telscombe Cliffs at Rottingdean , Brighton and Hove
management Eric Hazeldine
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Hazelcar from 1951

Hazeldine Motors was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Eric Hazeldine ran the business in Telscombe Cliff near Rottingdean , now part of Brighton and Hove , in the 1940s . His wife Ruth and his brother Roy supported him. Automobile production began in 1950 at the latest. The brand name was Hazelcar for passenger cars and Hazelvan for panel vans . Production ended in 1951. In 1952 the couple emigrated to Canada . A total of at least eight, probably around 25 vehicles were built. In 1951, the Battery Manufacturing Association from Hove began to manufacture electric cars on this basis and to offer them as BMA .

vehicles

First, two emerged subcompact cars - prototypes . They received the British license plates FNJ 81 and JUF 976 .

From 1950 the goal was to manufacture a vehicle that was able to reach a top speed of 80 km / h . The first prototype was powered by an Indian motorcycle engine , but it was too weak.

The couple used the vehicle with the registration number KUF 959 in various trials from 1950 , including the Daily Express 1000 Mile Reliability Rally in November 1950, which led from London via Scotland to Torquay . Here, as in later models, a four-cylinder engine from Ford of Britain with a displacement of 933 cc was used. In the two-seater roadster , the engine was mounted in a mid-engine design in front of the rear axle.

The vehicle with the registration number LCD 778 was bought in 1951 by Roderick Jones KBE of Rottingdean for his son Dominick, who drove it until 1957. Archie Hazell took over the no longer roadworthy vehicle in the same year, his son Arthur Hazell restored it later. It is now on display at the Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum in Halland .

Later, four-seater superstructures were also created, in which the engine position has not been recorded. One of them had the license plate LCD 597 .

A version Hazelvan as a delivery van was also offered. The local bakery Forfars bought two copies.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 171. (English)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 171. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Report from the Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum about Hazelcar and BMA (English, accessed December 17, 2014)