ISS Car Company

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ISS Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1984
resolution 1988
Seat Gillingham , Dorset , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management Peter Iredale
Branch Automobile manufacturer

ISS Car Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Peter Iredale, who also Proto Flight initiated, in 1984 founded the company in Gillingham in the county of Dorset . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Kestrel . Production ended in 1988. According to one source, ISS only manufactured Dovetail Plastics until 1985, and from 1985 to 1988 . FES continued production under its own brand name. According to a source, this was followed by Cartell , although the brand name has not been passed down. A total of about 15 copies were made.

The connection to Kestrel Cars , which also manufactured vehicles from 1984 to 1985 and used the same brand name, is unclear.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. This was a 1930s style roadster . The basis of the vehicles was the revised chassis of the VW Beetle . A one-piece body made of fiberglass was mounted on top. The doors were made of particularly thick, double-walled GRP. The roadster body offered space for two people. The four - cylinder boxer engine from the VW Beetle was mounted in the rear and drove the rear axle.

literature

  • 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. 820. (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. 136 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 820. (English)
  2. ↑ 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. 136 (English).