Latham Sportscars

Latham Sportscars
legal form
founding	1983
resolution	1990
Seat	Bicester , Oxfordshire
management	Julia Latham-Jackson
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Latham Sportscars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Paul and Julia Latham-Jackson operated in Bicester in the county Oxfordshire Specialist Cars , a business for kit cars . In 1983 they made a prototype , which they presented at the Kit Car Show in Stoneleigh . They then moved to Newlyn Coombe near Penzance in Cornwall , founded the Latham Sportscars company and began producing automobiles and kits. The brand name was Latham . Andrew Dawkes supported them in this. Due to the low demand, the two men left the company and worked for TWR and Triumph Motorcycles , whereupon Julia Latham-Jackson ran it alone. In 1988 the company moved back to Bicester. Production ended in 1990. A total of 26 or 27 copies were made.

vehicles

The F 1 from 1983 was based on a Triumph TR 3 . It was similar to a model from Falcon Cars or the Jaguar XK-SS . It remained a one-off.

The F 2 or F 2 Super Sports or Super Sports appeared in 1983 and remained on sale until 1990. As chassis one served monocoque made of fiberglass with front and rear subframes. Many parts came from the Triumph Dolomite .

Latham F2
Latham F2
Latham F2
Latham F2
Latham F2

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Latham.
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. 877. (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. 143 (English).

Web links

Commons : Latham Sportscars - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Latham.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d 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. 877. (English)
↑ ^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. 143 (English).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Latham.

[Beaulieu-2] A ^b ^c ^d 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. 877. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] 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. 143 (English).