Metaline

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Metaline
legal form
founding 1981
resolution 2006
Seat Wisbech , Cambridgeshire
management Howard Brooker
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Metaline was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Howard Brooker, who previously vehicles from Caterham Cars sold, founded in 1981, the company in Ascot in the county of Berkshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand names were Metaline and Brooker . He later moved to Wisbech in Cambridgeshire . Production ended in 2006. A total of at least 25 copies were made.

vehicles

Brand name Metaline

The Metaline 690 was a replica of an AC Cobra and only available as a kit. The basis was a semi-spaceframe chassis. A one-piece body was mounted on it. In some designs it was made entirely of aluminum , in others of fiberglass and carbon fiber . The open body offered space for two people. Various V8 engines powered the vehicles.

In the fall of 1981 the kit was offered for £ 1017.75 including VAT in Kitcars & Specials magazine . This made it one of the first British-made AC Cobra replicas. A total of about 25 copies were made.

Brand name Brooker

The Brooker 690 was the same vehicle. However, Metaline only delivered this model as a complete vehicle.

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. 1016. (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. 166 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1016. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 166 (English).