Litton Cars

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Litton Cars
legal form
founding 1989
resolution 1991
Seat Skipton , North Yorkshire
management Steve Greenwood
Branch Automobiles

Litton Corse

Litton Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1989 Steve Greenwood founded the company in Skipton in the county of North Yorkshire . He took over a project from Handmade Cars and started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Litton . Production ended in 1991. A total of about 45 copies were made. Carson Automotive Engineering from the same location continued production but used the Carson brand name .

vehicles

The only model was the successor to the Allora by Handmade Cars. It was a replica of the Lancia Stratos . The basis was a semi- monocoque . Many parts came from the Lancia Beta . Various engines from Alfa Romeo , Ferrari , Lancia , Renault , Rover and Vauxhall powered the vehicles.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Litton.
  • 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. 338. (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. 24 and 61 (English).

Web links

Commons : Litton Cars  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Litton.
  2. ^ A b 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. 338. (English)
  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. 24 and 61 (English).