Mallalieu engineering

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Mallalieu Engineering Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1974
resolution 1981
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Abingdon , Oxfordshire
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Mallalieu
Microdot

Mallalieu Engineering Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1974 Derry F. Mallalieu founded the company in Abingdon in the county of Oxfordshire and began the production of automobiles. The brand names were Mallalieu and Microdot . Derry Mallalieu died in 1975. Production ended in 1981. In total, more than 30 Mallalieu were created , while there are no production figures for the Microdot .

vehicles

Mallalieu

These vehicles were based on the chassis of the Bentley Mark VI . A new body was mounted on it. The Barchetta Open Tourer model appeared in 1974 and cost from £ 9,950 . The vehicle took four months to build. Mercia , later renamed Oxford , was a two-seater. It took six months to build. The price was from £ 15,000. Another source cites DM 200,000 without naming the model. Many vehicles were exported to the USA .

In 1978, the company advertised in issues 1 and 3 of the German-language classic car magazine Automobil- und Motorrad-Chronik to also manufacture left-hand drive vehicles to order . The Düsseldorf car dealership Auto Becker offered the vehicles.

On September 14, 2013, the Bonhams auction house auctioned an Oxford for 66,354 euros .

Microdot

The Microdot was a development by William Towns in 1976. Mallalieu made this model between 1980 and 1981. It was a microcar. There was a choice of petrol engines from the Mini and Reliant as well as various two-stroke engines . With prices of £ 4,000 for the basic version and £ 7,000 for the luxury version, the vehicle was too expensive to be successful in the market.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Mallalieu.
  • 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 , pp. 945–946 and 1033. (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. 156 (English).

Web links

Commons : Mallalieu Engineering  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Mallalieu.
  2. ↑ 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 , pp. 945–946 and 1033. (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. 156 (English).
  4. ^ Automobile and Motorcycle Chronicle , Issue 7/1978, p. 9.
  5. ↑ Auction (accessed January 11, 2015)