Peter Sheen

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Peter Sheen
legal form
founding 1964
resolution 1965
Seat Kingston upon Hull
management Peter Sheen
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Peter Sheen was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Wine merchant Peter Sheen began producing automobiles and kits in his Kingston upon Hull company in 1964 . The brand name was Sheen . The presentation of the first model took place at Brands Hatch in September 1964 . Production ended in 1965 because Chrysler no longer supplied any parts despite the contract. Sheen sold two copies in total.

vehicles

The only model was the Imperator GTS . This was a coupe . The body was made of aluminum and was manufactured by The Robert Peel Company in the same location. Many parts like the chassis came from the Hillman Imp . Its four-cylinder engines were available for the drive . In the basic version of the engine from Nathan and Willy Griffith was on 70 hp tuned . The top engine was an engine prepared by Paul Emery with a displacement of 1147 cm³ and an output of 105 hp.

A model with a cheaper fiberglass body was also planned .

The vehicle with the British registration number 961 KOR still exists.

literature

  • 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 , p. 1441. (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. 229 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 1441. (English)
  2. ^ A b 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. 229 (English).