Peerless Cars

The Peerless Cars Ltd. was a British automobile manufacturer that manufactured the Peerless in Slough ( Berkshire ) from 1957 until it went bankrupt in 1960 .

The prototype of this sporty sedan was initially called Warwick and was designed by Bernie Rodger for company founders John Gordon and James Byrnes.

At the start of production in 1957, the car was renamed Peerless . It had the mechanics of the Triumph TR3 , built into a tubular frame with a De-Dion rear axle . The body of the attractive 4-seater was made of GRP . The car performed well, but it was expensive to manufacture and the manufacturing quality did not match the equally expensive models from major manufacturers. After around 325 copies, production was stopped in 1960.

Bernie Rodger started another production of the outwardly little changed vehicle with a large, front-hinged front hood, a stiffer "space frame" chassis and a revised dashboard than Warwick .

John Gordon and Jim Keeble used the Peerless Space Frame as the basis for the Gordon GT presented in 1960 with a Chevrolet engine and a body designed by Giugiaro and built by Bertone . From 1964 it became the Gordon Keeble .

Models

model	Construction period	cylinder	Displacement	power	wheelbase
GT	1957-1960	4 row	1991 cc	100 bhp (74 kW)	2400 mm

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literature

David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1999). ISBN 1-874105-93-6