Loxton Laminates

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Loxton Laminates
legal form
founding 1986
resolution 1987 or 1988
Seat Bridport , Dorset
management Bill Harbrin
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Loxton Laminates was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1986 Bill Harbron founded the company in Bridport in the county of Dorset . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand names were Harbron and Brit . Production ended in 1987 or 1988. A total of about 14 copies were made.

vehicles

Brand name Harbron

The only model was the Special . The basis was a spaceframe made of steel tubes. An open two-seater body was mounted on it. A four-cylinder engine from Fiat drove the vehicle. A kit cost 1,500 pounds . One source describes the roadster as a 1930s refugee with the handling of a modern Lotus Seven . About twelve copies were made of this model.

Brand name Brit

The only model 2 + 2 was a modification of the Harbron Special . The open body offered space for 2 + 2 people. The four-cylinder engine came from the Ford Cortina . The market success was low. Only two copies were made by 1987.

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. 671. (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. 43 and 117 (English).

Web links

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. 671. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e 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. 43 and 117 (English).