Parradine Motor Company

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Parradine Motor Company PLC
legal form PLC
founding 1987
resolution 1991
Seat Appleby (Lincolnshire)
management John Parradine
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Parradine Motor Company PLC was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John Parradine manufactured Deltayn automobiles for his company between 1985 and 1987 . In 1987 he founded Parradine Motor Company PLC in Appleby, Lincolnshire and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was Parradine . In 1990 a vehicle was presented at the Geneva Motor Show . Plans to relocate the company's headquarters to France failed. Production ended in 1991. A total of 25 vehicles were built. JJR Automotive , founded in 1998, used the same brand name.

vehicles

The only model was the Pegasus V12 . The designer was Richard Oakes. It was an open two-seater that was touted as a modern take on the AC Cobra . A lattice frame formed the chassis . The V12 engine and the gearbox came from Jaguar . In 1990 the new price was £ 90,000 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.