Marauder Car Company

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Wilks, Mackie & Co Limited
Marauder Car Company
legal form Corporation
founding 1949
resolution 1952
Seat Dorridge , UK
management George Mackie
Peter Wilks
"Spen" King
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Marauder Car Company was a British automobile manufacturer.

Company history

The company Wilks, Mackie & Co Limited from Dorridge in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull began in 1950 with the production of automobiles . In 1951 the company was renamed Marauder Car Company Limited and moved to Kenilworth in Warwickshire .

In 1952 production was stopped after about 15 vehicles were manufactured.

vehicles

Marauder from 1951
Marauder from 1951

Sporty two-seaters in coupé and roadster body styles with six-cylinder engines were produced. The model A 1950 had a motor of the Rover P4 75 consisting of 2103 cc displacement 80 PS made. The model 100 from 1951 had a larger engine with 2392 cc and 105 hp. The body construction company Richard Mead , whose owner was friends with the Marauder founders, designed the body . Mead also built the prototype. It was planned that his company would also manufacture the bodyshells for the series vehicles in the future. But it didn't come to that. Mead built the prototype. It is unclear whether the bodies for the first one or two series models were also produced by Mead; the sources on this are inconsistent. It is certain that Abbey Panels in Coventry took over the production of the series bodies in 1950 and, in any case, produced the vast majority of the 15 Marauder bodies.

A vehicle of this make can be viewed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • GN Georgano: cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars. 1895-1975. New edition. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English).

Web links

Commons : Marauder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 , Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 54.
  2. ^ History of the Marauder Car Company on the website www.gracesguide.co.uk (accessed September 20, 2019).